CVE-2000-0617

The CVE-2000-0617 issue is a buffer overflow in the xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux that allows local privilege escalation via a long USER environment variable. The connected documents confirm the vulnerable components (xconq/cconq) and the root cause (buffer overflow triggered by ...

CVE-2000-0617

Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long USER environmental variable...