CVE-2008-1994: Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed Acon

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (a) acon.c, (b) menu.c, and (c) child.c in Acon 1.0.5-5 through 1.0.5-7 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long HOME environment variable or (2) a large number of terminal columns.

Affected products

• Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed Acon: version 1.0.5-5 only; version 1.0.5-6 only; version 1.0.5-7 only

Published 2008-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.