CVE-2000-0798

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SGI IRIX

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

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

SGI IRIX 6.4

6.4

References

8569

1540

Vendor Advisory

20000802 [LSD] some unpublished LSD exploit codes

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