CVE-2003-0840: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in dtprintinfo on HP-UX 11.00, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long DISPLAY environment variable.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.