CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
60.9%
FTE contains a vulnerability in the processing of certain environment variables that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
FTE is a text editor available for a variety of operating systems. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way FTE performs bounds checking on certain environment variables. By supplying an overly long string of characters for the HOME
or TERM
environment variable, a local user could execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges of the FTE process. Typically, FTE is installed with setuid root privileges.
A local user could execute arbitrary code with privileges of the FTE process.
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Updated: April 16, 2004
Affected
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Please refer to Debian Security Advisory DSA 472-1.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23900964 Feedback>).
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This vulnerability was reported by Steve Kemp.
This document was written by Damon Morda.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0648 |
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Severity Metric: | 10.69 Date Public: |