Published: 13/03/2000 Updated: 10/09/2008

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

VMScore: 730

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

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1060/info A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable By supplying a sufficiently long string containing machine executable code, the imwheel program can be caused to run arbitrary co ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1060/info A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable By supplying a sufficiently long string containing machine executable code, the imwheel program can be caused to run arbitrary com ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-03/0168.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-016.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19812/

CVE-2000-0230

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