CVE-2002-0040: Sgi Irix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in SGI IRIX 6.5.11 through 6.5.15f allows local users to cause privileged applications to dump core via the HOSTALIASES environment variable, which might allow the users to gain privileges.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2002-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.