CVE-2002-0506: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in newt.c of newt windowing library (libnewt) 0.50.33 and earlier may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code in setuid programs that use libnewt.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.