CVE-2008-1994

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

27/04/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (a) acon.c, (b) menu.c, and (c) child.c in Acon 1.0.5-5 through 1.0.5-7 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long HOME environment variable or (2) a large number of terminal columns.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ahmed_abdel-hamid_mohamed:acon:1.0.5-5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ahmed_abdel-hamid_mohamed:acon:1.0.5-6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ahmed_abdel-hamid_mohamed:acon:1.0.5-7:::::::*

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CVE-2008-1994

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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