PT-2000-1767 · Ibm+12 · Aix+14

Published

2000-11-14

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Updated

2018-10-30

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CVE-2000-0844

CVSS v2.0

10

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions No specific software or versions are mentioned.
Description The issue concerns the locale subsystem on Unix systems, where certain functions do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings. This allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext() and catopen().
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0844

Affected Products

Aix
Debian
Immunix
Irix
Linux
Mandrake Linux
Openlinux
Openlinux Ebuilder
Openlinux Eserver
Secure Linux
Slackware Linux
Solaris
Sunos
Suse Linux
Turbolinux