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libast — security advisory
Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).
- Products
- libast
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.7-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-0224
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0224
libast
Fixed versions: 0.7-1
libast
Fixed versions: 0.7-1
libast
Fixed versions: 0.7-1
Complete source record
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