CVE-2002-1598 (GCVE-0-2002-1598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-03-13 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:26
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflows in Computer Associates MLink (CA-MLink) 6.5 and earlier may allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to (1) mlclear or (2) mllock.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544995 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
ftp://ftp.ca.com/pub/unicenter/mlink/mlink.13/MLI… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4440 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/266052 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772915 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4441 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2002-04-05 00:00
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