CVE-2003-1461: HP HP-Ux

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

Buffer overflow in rwrite for HP-UX 11.0 could allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument. NOTE: the vendor was unable to reproduce the problem on a system that had been patched for an lp vulnerability (CVE-2002-1473).

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.