Vulnerability in Bochs Project
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 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.
EPSS: 0.007 (49.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Bochs_project Bochs
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)