CVE-2006-1539

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-1539
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-03-30 11:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMultiple buffer overflows in the checkscores function in scores.c in tetris-bsd in bsd-games before 2.17-r1 in Gentoo Linux might allow local users with games group membership to gain privileges by modifying tetris-bsd.scores to contain crafted executable content, which is executed when another user launches tetris-bsd.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS: 0.008640000 probability, percentile 0.751260000 (date 2026-04-19)

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bsd-games Tetris-bsd gold All linux All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo bsd-games Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.osvdb.org/24261 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Gentoo Bug 122399 - games-misc/bsd-games: tetris-bsd buffer overflows af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Patch
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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