CVE-2002-1594 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0014.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Grpck Subscribe	Grpck Subscribe
Pwck Subscribe	Pwck Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:grpck:grpck::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:pwck:pwck::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-1575	Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7857
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7859

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-03-13T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:29.194Z

Reserved: 2005-03-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1594

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-01-02T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1594

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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