CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0087

Published: Feb 12, 2001 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

itetris/xitetris 1.6.2 and earlier trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the gunzip program, which allows local users to gain root privileges by changing their PATH so that it points to a malicious gunzip program.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Itetris Michael_glickman 1.6.2 1.6.2
Itetris Michael_glickman 1.6.1 1.6.1

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