CVE-2004-0074: Michael Bischoff Xsok

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in xsok 1.02 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a long LANG environment variable, or (2) a long -xsokdir command line argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0949.

Affected products

Published 2004-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.