CVE-2000-0230: Halloween Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

Affected products

• Halloween Halloween Linux: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only

Published 2000-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.