4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2004-0158

Published: 29/03/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017
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 lbreakout2 allows local users to gain 'games' group privileges via a large HOME environment variable to (1) editor.c, (2) theme.c, (3) manager.c, (4) config.c, (5) game.c, (6) levels.c, or (7) main.c.

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Vendor Advisories

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a vulnerability in lbreakout2, a game, where proper bounds checking was not performed on environment variables This bug could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of group "games" For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version ...

Exploits

/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/9712/info Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the environment variable handling of LBreakout2 The issue is due to an insufficient boundary checking of certain environment variables used by the affected application A malicious user may exploit this condition to potentially corrupt sensiti ...