What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-1019

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the getConfig function in Aeon 0.2a and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

Affected products

• aeon: 0.1.8, 0.1.9, 0.2, 0.2a

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111262942708249&w=2
• http://security-tmp.h14.ru/exploits/23laeon.c.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19951
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111262942708249&w=2
• http://security-tmp.h14.ru/exploits/23laeon.c.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19951

Get alerted when CVE-2005-1019 or the next vulnerability affects your stack