PT-2000-1905 · Openbsd · Openbsd

Published 2000-12-19 · Updated 2018-05-03 · CVE-2000-0995

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenBSD (affected versions not specified)

Description A format string issue in the yp passwd program of OpenBSD, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows attackers to gain root privileges using a malformed name.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0995

Affected Products

Openbsd

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0995 · Security Note
• ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5635 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/6125 · Note