Unscored CVE-2002-1789 EUVD-2002-1768GHSA-697f-q7rj-4v4v

Format string vulnerability in newsx NNTP client before 1.4.8 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers tha…

Published Jun 28, 2005 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Format string vulnerability in newsx NNTP client before 1.4.8 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled in a call to the syslog function.

References

5240 vdb-entry
newsx-syslog-format-string(9583) vdb-entry