CVE-2004-1946 Information

Description

Format string vulnerability in the PRINT_ERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108249818308672&w=2 http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-03.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15924