CVE-2004-2372

published 2004-12-31

CVE-2004-2372: Buffer overflow in Bochs before 2.1.1, if installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable, which is used if…

Priority P4 20 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

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

Buffer overflow in Bochs before 2.1.1, if installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable, which is used if the .bochsrc, bochsrc, and bochsrc.txt cannot be found in a known path. NOTE: some external documents recommend that Bochs be installed setuid root, so this should be treated as a vulnerability.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
bochs_project	bochs	< 2.1.1	2.1.1
bochs_project	bochs	>= 0 < 2.1.1-1	2.1.1-1
bochs_project	bochs	>= 0 < 2.1.1-1	2.1.1-1
bochs_project	bochs	>= 0 < 2.1.1-1	2.1.1-1
bochs_project	bochs	>= 0 < 2.1.1-1	2.1.1-1
debian	bochs	< bochs 2.1.1-1 (bookworm)	bochs 2.1.1-1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 7.2 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.2 HIGH

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