CVE-2000-0230

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Linux

First reported 24 years ago

2000-03-13 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:03:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 6.1

6.1

Red Hat Linux 6.2

6.2

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