CVE-2000-0617

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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

Affected products

Stanley T. Shebs Xconq: 7.2.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0222.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0222.html

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