Security Advisory

CVE-2001-0087

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-02-02 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 04:06:55
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

itetris/xitetris 1.6.2 and earlier trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the gunzip program, which allows local users to gain root privileges by changing their PATH so that it points to a malicious gunzip program.