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

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

VMScore: 1000

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

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

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/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1540/info The truncate() system call on a number of versions of the IRIX operating system (with the xfs file system) does not properly check permissions before truncating a file, making it possible for unprivileged users to damage files to which they would otherwise not have write access Although only v ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1540 http://www.osvdb.org/8569 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200008021924.e72JOVs12558%40ix.put.poznan.pl https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20137/

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