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CVE-2000-0798

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/8569
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1540
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200008021924.e72JOVs12558%40ix.put.poznan.pl
• http://www.osvdb.org/8569
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1540
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200008021924.e72JOVs12558%40ix.put.poznan.pl

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