CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0976

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.97%

60th percentile - higher than 60% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

A local user may gain the ability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the vulnerable process, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system compromise.

Recommendation

Update XFree to a version later than 3.3.x that includes a fix for this buffer overflow.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS