CVE-2006-0224 Affecting libast package, versions <0.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBAST-1549988
  • published25 Jan 2006
  • disclosed25 Jan 2006

Introduced: 25 Jan 2006

CVE-2006-0224  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libast to version 0.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libast package and not the libast package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).

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