CVE-2002-0506 (GCVE-0-2002-0506)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2003-04-02 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 02:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Buffer overflow in newt.c of newt windowing library (libnewt) 0.50.33 and earlier may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code in setuid programs that use libnewt.
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