CVE-2008-1994 - CVE Reference - Advisories

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1994

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Description: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (a) acon.c, (b) menu.c, and (c) child.c in Acon 1.0.5-5 through 1.0.5-7 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long HOME environment variable or (2) a large number of terminal columns.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41915 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29909 MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475733 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476603 BID 28862

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