CVE-2005-0240

First published: Mon Feb 07 2005(Updated: )

Format string vulnerability in chdev on IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument, which is not properly handled when printing an error message.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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