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CVE-2004-0623 (GCVE-0-2004-0623)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-06-30 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:24
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in misc.c in GNU GNATS 4.00 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a string that gets logged by syslog.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108820000823191&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10609 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2004-06-25 00:00
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