CVE-2002-1814 describes a buffer overflow in efstools within Bonobo, affecting products like Gnome, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and Slackware. When efstools is installed setuid, local users can exploit this vulnerability by providing long command line arguments to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:bonobo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.0:*:ppc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.