CVE-2002-0497

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0497
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-08-12 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in mtr 0.46 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to access a raw socket via a long MTR_OPTIONS environment variable.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mtr Mtr 0.41 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-124-1 mtr af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - mtr 0.45, 0.46 - From [email protected] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
MTR Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
ISS X-Force Database: mtr-options-bo (8367): MTR MTR_OPTIONS environment variable buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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