CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0617

Published: Jun 22, 2000 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

4.6 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0617
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Xconq	Stanley_t._shebs	7.2.2 (including)	7.2.2 (including)

References

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