CVE Catalog

CVE-2003-0333

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in kermit in HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 allow local users to gain privileges via long arguments to ask, askq, define, assign, and getc.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized privilege escalation by local users, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of C-Kermit to mitigate the risks associated with this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple buffer overflows in kermit in HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 (C-Kermit 6.0.192 and possibly other versions before 8.0) allow local users to gain privileges via long arguments to (1) ask, (2) askq, (3) define, (4) assign, and (5) getc, some of which may share the same underlying function "doask," a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0085.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS