CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0840

Published: Nov 17, 2003 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0840
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Buffer overflow in dtprintinfo on HP-UX 11.00, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long DISPLAY environment variable.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Hp-ux	Hp	11.00 (including)	11.00 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=106563181313571\u0026w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=106563181313571\u0026w=2

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