CVE-2006-0224: Libast

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).

Affected products

• Libast Libast: version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.6.1 only

Published 2006-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.