CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1042

10.0 HIGH Published 2000-12-11 Modified 2026-09-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-11
Last modified
2026-09-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.

Affected configurations

• mandrakesoft mandrake linux 6.1 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.1

References