CVE-2002-0506 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the newt windowing library (libnewt) versions 0.50.33 and earlier, specifically within the newt.c file, affecting Red Hat Linux. This local vulnerability, with low attack complexity, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve denial of service or execute arbitrary code, particularly in setuid programs utilizing libnewt. While it has a high CVSS score of 7.2 and significant community discussion with 10 mentions, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.0:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.0:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.