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Published: 28/05/1998 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

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/362/info xosview is an X11 system monitoring application that ships with RedHat 51 installed setuid root A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Xrmcc, the offending code listed below: char userrfilename[1024]; strcpy(userrfilename, getenv("HOME")); The userfilename can be overflowed and arbritr ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/362 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8787.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101926034&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101926021&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19281/

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