Published: 21/06/2000 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 725

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in fld program in Kanji on Console (KON) package on Linux may allow local users to gain root privileges via an input file containing long CHARSET_REGISTRY or CHARSET_ENCODING settings.

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/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1371/info KON (Kanji On Console) is a package for displaying Kanji text under Linux and comes with two suid binaries which are vulnerable to buffer overflows "fld", one of the vulnerable programs, accepts options input from a text file Through this mechanism it is possible to input arbitrary code into ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1371 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.21.0006192340340.19998-100000%40ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20024/

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