7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2001-0111

Published: 12/03/2001 Updated: 10/10/2017
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

Vulnerability Summary

Format string vulnerability in splitvt prior to 1.6.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via the -rcfile command line argument.

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sam lantinga splitvt 1.6.4

debian debian linux 2.2

Vendor Advisories

It was reported recently that splitvt is vulnerable to numerous buffer overflow attack and a format string attack An attacker was able to gain access to the root user id We recommend you upgrade your splitvt package immediately ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/2210/info splitvt is a VT100 window splitter, designed to allow the user two command line interfaces in one terminal window, originally written by Sam Lantinga It is freely available, open source, and included with many variants of the Linux Operating System A problem in the program could allow for a for ...