CVE-2000-0794

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.

Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.

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

First reported 24 years ago

2000-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:21:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 6.2

6.2

References

irix-libgl-bo(5063)

8568

1527

Vendor Advisory

20000802 [LSD] some unpublished LSD exploit codes

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