CVE-2002-1617: HP TRU64

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in HP Tru64 UNIX 5.x allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long -contextDir argument to dtaction, (2) a long -p argument to dtprintinfo, (3) a long -customization argument to dxterm, or (4) a long DISPLAY environment variable to dtterm.

Affected products

• HP TRU64: version 5.1b_pk2_bl22 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.