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CVE-2000-06171 exploit

Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long USER environmen…

Published 26 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.6
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.7%
percentile 54%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long USER environmental variable.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.72% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-20093 Stanley T. Shebs Xconq 7.2.2 - xconq Buffer Overflow · local · 2000-06-22

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.04.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0222.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred

Sources

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