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CVE-2000-0844

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
14/11/2000
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_ebuilder:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.0es:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.2m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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