CVE-2004-2264

published 2004-12-31

CVE-2004-2264: Format string bug in the open_altfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly…

Priority P4 19 medium 6.4 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I P A P

Format string bug in the open_altfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in the LESSOPEN environment variable. NOTE: since less is not setuid or setgid, then this is not a vulnerability unless there are plausible scenarios under which privilege boundaries could be crossed

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	less	—	—
gnu	less	—	—
gnu	less	—	—
gnu	less	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 6.4 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 6.4 LOW

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