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CVE-2004-0623

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2004-11-12 gnats -- format string vulnerability

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CVE-2004-0623 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2004-0623
Phase Assigned(20040629)

Description

Format string vulnerability in misc.c in GNU GNATS 4.00 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a string that gets logged by syslog.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20040625 format string vulnerability in Gnats
BID 10609
XF gnats-format-string(16517)

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