CVE-2006-1539: Bsd-Games Tetris-Bsd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple 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.

Affected products

• Bsd-Games Tetris-Bsd: version gold only

Published 2006-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.