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CVE-2004-0158

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0158 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the lbreakout2 game, specifically affecting versions within the lgames suite. This flaw allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to the 'games' group by manipulating the HOME environment variable with an excessively large value, impacting multiple source files. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low-complexity local attack that could lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog and lacking active exploitation or significant community discussion, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lgames:lbreakout2:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lgames:lbreakout2:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lgames:lbreakout2:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lgames:lbreakout2:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lgames:lbreakout2:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23738 · Feb 21, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
security.debian.org / pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1.diff.gz
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15229
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-445
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/9712
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory