7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2000-0795

Published: 20/10/2000 Updated: 07/11/2023
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

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in lpstat in IRIX 6.2 and 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long -n option.

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sgi irix 6.3

sgi irix 6.2

Exploits

/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1529/info Certain versions of IRIX ship with a version of lpstat which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack The program, lpstat, is used to check the status of the printer being used by the IRIX machine The problem is in the command line parsing section of the code whereby a user can supply an ove ...
#!/bin/sh ## copyright LAST STAGE OF DELIRIUM jul 2000 poland *://lsd-plnet/ # ## /usr/bin/lpstat # EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/lpstat FILE=file LIBRARY=lsd DIRECTORY=tmp cd $DIRECTORY cat > $FILE << 'EOF' HOSTNAME=localhost HOSTPRINTER=bzzz-z EOF echo NETTYPE=////$D ...