CVE-2002-0246

First published: Wed May 29 2002(Updated: )

Format string vulnerability in the message catalog library functions in UnixWare 7.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the LC_MESSAGE environment variable to read other message catalogs containing format strings from setuid programs such as vxprint.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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