CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0763

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

xlockmore and xlockf do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local users to gain root privileges via the -d option.

Affected configurations

• david bagley xlock 4.16 • david bagley xlock 4.16.1

References