CVE-2003-1053

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2003-1053 · Published 03/10/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-1053 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting xshisen (xshisen).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.53%, higher than 44.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xshisen xshisen	`= 1.5.1`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in XShisen allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) -KCONV command line option or (2) XSHISENLIB environment variable.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/9950 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/8770 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/8776 · Patch
vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13358
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13359

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