Overview
Eye of Gnome contains a format string vulnerability that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, typically an unprivileged system user.
Description
Eye of Gnome (EOG) is an image viewing application that is part of the GNOME desktop suite. Researchers from Core Security Technologies have discovered a format string vulnerability in the command line parser of this product. The vulnerability exists in a section of the command line parser that processes file names. |
Impact
This vulnerability may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running EOG, typically an unprivileged system user. |
Solution
Apply a patch The vendor section of this document lists vendors and their responses to this vulnerability. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
The CERT/CC thanks Core Security Technologies for discovering this vulnerability and working with the vendor to address it.
This document was written by Jeffrey P. Lanza.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0165 |
| Severity Metric: | 4.88 |
| Date Public: | 2003-03-20 |
| Date First Published: | 2003-04-04 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-04-17 23:14 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 7 |