CVE-1999-1483

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-1999-1483 · Published 19/06/1997 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1483 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting svgalib (svgalib).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.70%, higher than 53.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
svgalib svgalib	`≤ 1.2.10`	No fix yet

Buffer overflow in zgv in svgalib 1.2.10 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable.

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