National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0649
Orirignal release date: 2003-08-27
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in xpcd-svga for xpcd 2.08 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: local
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1" other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    xpcd (xpcd)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0649