CVE-2005-0764: Marc Lehmann Rxvt-Unicode

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in command.C for rxvt-unicode before 5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file containing long escape sequences.

Affected products

• Marc Lehmann Rxvt-Unicode: version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only; version 3.7 only; version 3.8 only; version 3.9 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.