PT-2000-1813 · Gnu · Screen

Published 2000-12-19 · Updated 2018-05-03 · CVE-2000-0901

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions screen versions 3.9.5 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to gain root privileges via format characters in the vbell msg initialization variable.

Recommendations For screen versions 3.9.5 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.9.5 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0901

Affected Products

Screen

References · 10

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/1641 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/20191 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0901 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5188 · Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv6_draht_screen_txt.html · Note
• http://linux-mandrake.com/en/updates/MDKSA-2000-044.php3 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/80178 · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-058.html · Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:46.screen.asc · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0530.html · Note