CVE-2002-1155 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1155?

CVE-2002-1155 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 5 Jun 2003. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in KON kon2 0.3.9b and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -Coding command line argument.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1155?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1155?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1155 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2002-1155 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-1155 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Linux

• CVE-2000-1220 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0248 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1542 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1299 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2000-0322 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0

All Redhat Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x5xg-q4w6-jc56.