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CVE-2000-0976

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-12-19 · updated 2026-09-23

Description

Buffer overflow in xlib in XFree 3.3.x possibly allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long DISPLAY environment variable or a -display command line parameter.

Affected products

• Xfree86 Project Xlib: 3.3x

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0211.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5751.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1805
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0211.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5751.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1805

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