CVE-2003-1053: Xshisen

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in XShisen allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) -KCONV command line option or (2) XSHISENLIB environment variable.

Affected products

• Xshisen Xshisen: version 1.5.1 only

Published 2003-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.