CVE-2007-5037: Inotify Inotify-Tools

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.

Affected products

• Inotify Inotify-Tools: up to and including 3.10

Published 2007-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.