CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0844
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• caldera openlinux ebuilder 3.0
• immunix immunix 6.2
• conectiva linux 4.0
• conectiva linux 4.0es
• conectiva linux 4.1
• conectiva linux 4.2
• conectiva linux 5.0
• conectiva linux 5.1
• sgi irix 6.2
• sgi irix 6.3
• sgi irix 6.4
• sgi irix 6.5
• sgi irix 6.5.1
• sgi irix 6.5.2m
• sgi irix 6.5.3
• sgi irix 6.5.3f
• sgi irix 6.5.3m
• sgi irix 6.5.4
• sgi irix 6.5.6
• sgi irix 6.5.7
• sgi irix 6.5.8
• caldera openlinux
• caldera openlinux eserver 2.3
• debian debian linux 2.0
• debian debian linux 2.1
• debian debian linux 2.2
• debian debian linux 2.3
• ibm aix 3.2
• ibm aix 3.2.4
• ibm aix 3.2.5
• ibm aix 4.0
• ibm aix 4.1
• ibm aix 4.1.1
• ibm aix 4.1.2
• ibm aix 4.1.3
• ibm aix 4.1.4
• ibm aix 4.1.5
• ibm aix 4.2
• ibm aix 4.2.1
• ibm aix 4.3
• ibm aix 4.3.1
• ibm aix 4.3.2
• mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.0
• mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.1
• redhat linux 5.0
• redhat linux 5.1
• redhat linux 5.2
• redhat linux 6.0
• redhat linux 6.1
• redhat linux 6.2
• slackware slackware linux 7.0
• slackware slackware linux 7.1
• sun solaris 2.6
• sun sunos 5.0
• sun sunos 5.1
• sun sunos 5.2
• sun sunos 5.3
• sun sunos 5.4
• sun sunos 5.5
• sun sunos 5.5.1
… and 14 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20000901-01-P patches.sgi.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt www.calderasystems.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html www.turbolinux.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5176 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20000901-01-P patches.sgi.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt www.calderasystems.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html www.turbolinux.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5176 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com