CVE-2006-0224
N/A
Published: January 25, 2006 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibast
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
Description
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).
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (16)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libast/?branch_id=17907&release_id=217840Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/373Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-976Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-14.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:029Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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