CVE-2003-0165 (GCVE-0-2003-0165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-03-29 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:43
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in Eye Of Gnome (EOG) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument for the file to display.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2003-03-28 00:00
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