CVE-2000-0794: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.2 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.