CVE-2004-0158

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Buffer overflow in lbreakout2 allows local users to gain 'games' group privileges via a large HOME environment variable to (1) editor.c, (2) theme.c, (3) manager.c, (4) config.c, (5) game.c, (6) levels.c, or (7) main.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-23738 local linux verified

Li0n7 · 2004-02-21

LGames LBreakout2 2.2.2 - Multiple Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`2.4`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.4`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0158

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