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Status published
Medium
CVE-2006-0224
Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1...
Vulnerability 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).
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.osvdb.org/22735
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:029
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/libast/?branch_id=17907&release_id=217840
- http://www.rosiello.org/en/read_bugs.php?id=25
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0314
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18632
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16350
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-976
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24303
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18916
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18586
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/373
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-14.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423207/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423088/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423366/100/0/threaded
Affected Vendor
libast
View all reports →Affected Software
libast
Vulnerable Versions:
0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
January 25th, 2006
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.