CVE-2005-4581: Scott Draves Electric Sheep

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

Buffer overflow in Electric Sheep 2.6.3 client allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long window-id parameter. NOTE: because the program is not setuid and not normally called from remote programs, there may not be a typical attack vector for the issue that crosses privilege boundaries. Therefore this may not be a vulnerability.

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Published 2005-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.