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Published: 20/08/1997 Updated: 18/10/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 725

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/471/info The SpaceBall game, shipped with Irix 62 from Silicon Graphics contains a security hole which could result in the compromise of the root account By blindly taking the contents of the $HOSTNAME variable, and not placing quotes around it, the spaceballsh program can be made to execute commands # ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602746719552&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19357/

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