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CVE-2002-0497 (GCVE-0-2002-0497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:49
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in mtr 0.46 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to access a raw socket via a long MTR_OPTIONS environment variable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8367.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4217 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-124 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2002-03-06 00:00
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