CVE-2008-5076 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5076 at MITRE

Description

htop 0.7 writes process names to a terminal without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow local users to hide processes, modify arbitrary files, or have unspecified other impact via a process name with "crazy control strings."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 440951 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:026, published Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:34:35 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:56 2023