CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1010

10.0 HIGH Published 2000-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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 vulnerability in talkd in OpenBSD and possibly other BSD-based OSes allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a user name that contains format characters.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openbsd 2.3 • openbsd openbsd 2.4 • openbsd openbsd 2.5 • openbsd openbsd 2.6 • openbsd openbsd 2.7 • redhat linux 5.0 • redhat linux 5.1 • redhat linux 5.2

References