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CVE-2000-0794

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: 6.2

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5063.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/8568
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1527
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200008021924.e72JOVs12558%40ix.put.poznan.pl
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5063.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/8568
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1527
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200008021924.e72JOVs12558%40ix.put.poznan.pl

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