4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0830

Published: 17/11/2003 Updated: 10/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 465
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in marbles 1.0.2 and previous versions allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

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marbles marbles 1.0.1

Vendor Advisories

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing the HOME environment variable This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games' For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 102-1woody1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon We recomm ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/8710/info A problem in the handling of data in the Home environment variable has been reported in the marbles program This may make it possible for a local attacker to gain elevated privileges /* c-marblesc * * PoC exploit made for advisory based uppon an local stack based overflow * Vulnerable ver ...