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CVE-2000-0230

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-03-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

Affected products

• Halloween Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Linux: 6.1, 6.2

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-03/0168.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-016.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-03/0168.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-016.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060

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