CVE-2006-0224

Published: 25 January 2006

Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
libast Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (0.6-0pre2003010606.1ubuntu4)
	edgy	Released (0.6-0pre2003010606.1ubuntu4)
	feisty	Released (0.6-0pre2003010606.1ubuntu4)
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0224
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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