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CVE-2003-0144
Buffer overflow in the lprm command in the lprold lpr package on SuSE 7.1 through 7.3, OpenBSD 3.2 and earlier, and possibly other…
High7.2EPSS 1.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the lprm command in the lprold lpr package on SuSE 7.1 through 7.3, OpenBSD 3.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via long command line arguments such as (1) request ID or (2) user name.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- DSA-275 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 7025 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDKSA-2003:059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 8293 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2003:0014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-267 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20030305 potential buffer overflow in lprm (fwd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030308 OpenBSD lprm(1) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- lprm-bo(11473) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .