CVE-2002-1814: Gnome Bonobo

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in efstools in Bonobo, when installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments.

Affected products

• Gnome Bonobo: any version
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 7.1 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 8.0 only

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