CVE-2003-0098 Information

Description

Unknown vulnerability in apcupsd before 3.8.6 and 3.10.x before 3.10.5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges possibly via format strings in a request to a slave server.

Reference

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-015.0.txt http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/apcupsd/apcupsd/src/apcnisd.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6 http://hsj.shadowpenguin.org/misc/apcupsd_exp.txt http://securitytracker.com/id?1006108 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137900 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-277 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11334.php http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:018 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_022_apcupsd.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6828 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7200