CVE-2000-0798: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only

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