CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0999
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-12-11
- 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
Description
Format string vulnerabilities in OpenBSD ssh program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allow attackers to gain root privileges.
Affected configurations
• openbsd openssh 4.5
References
- ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory