CVE-2002-1594 in grpck

Summary

Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

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• Reservation: 03/13/2005
• Disclosure: 01/02/2002
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-17905
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 9.3
• EPSS: 0.00174
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1594
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1594
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2002-1594/