CVE-2002-1605: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1a, 5.1, 5.0a, 4.0g, and 4.0f allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable to (1) dxpause, (2) dxconsole, or (3) dtsession.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.20 only; version 11.00 only; version 11.04 only; version 11.11 only; version 11.22 only
• HP TRU64: version 4.0f only; version 4.0g only; version 5.0a only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1a only

Published 2002-09-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.