CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0176

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in certain functions in src/fileio.c and src/unix/fileio.c in xmame before January 11, 2006. Providing a long -lang, -ctrlr, -pb, or -rec argument on many operating systems, or a long -jdev argument on Ubuntu Linux, may allow a local user to gain privileges.

Risk Assessment

A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Immediately update xmame to a version newer than January 11, 2006, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in certain functions in src/fileio.c and src/unix/fileio.c in xmame before 11 January 2006 may allow local users to gain privileges via a long (1) -lang, (2) -ctrlr, (3) -pb, or (4) -rec argument on many operating systems, and via a long (5) -jdev argument on Ubuntu Linux.

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