Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2000-0617. PoCs published by V9.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a local buffer overflow in Xconq 7.4.1 via the XCONQCONFIG environment variable and the -L parameter, allowing privilege escalation to the 'games' group. It uses custom shellcode to execute a setreuid() followed by a shell spawn.
Description
Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long USER environmental variable.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a local buffer overflow in Xconq 7.4.1 via the XCONQCONFIG environment variable and the -L parameter, allowing privilege escalation to the 'games' group. It uses custom shellcode to execute a setreuid() followed by a shell spawn.