CVE-2006-1539

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the checkscores function in scores.c in tetris-bsd in bsd-games before 2.17-r1 in Gentoo Linux might allow local users with games group membership to gain privileges by modifying tetris-bsd.scores to contain crafted executable content, which is executed when another user launches tetris-bsd.

Affected products

Bsd-Games Tetris-Bsd: gold

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122399
http://secunia.com/advisories/19442
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-26.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/24261
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17308
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25611
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122399
http://secunia.com/advisories/19442
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-26.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/24261
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17308
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25611

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