CVE-2003-0165

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2003-0165 · Published 02/04/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0165 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting eog (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
eog gnome	`= 1.0.0= 1.0.1= 1.0.2= 1.0.3= 1.0.4= 1.1.1= 1.1.2= 1.1.3= 1.1.4= 2.2.0`	No fix yet

Description

Format string vulnerability in Eye Of Gnome (EOG) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument for the file to display.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0157.html
marc.info
coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/363001 · US Government Resource
mandriva.com/security/advisories
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-128.html · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/7121 · Exploit
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A52

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