CVE-2000-0994

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD fstat program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows local users to gain root privileges via the PWD environmental variable.

Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD fstat program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows local users to gain root privileges via the PWD environmental variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

OpenBSD

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 2.3

2.3

OpenBSD 2.4

2.4

OpenBSD 2.5

2.5

OpenBSD 2.6

2.6

OpenBSD 2.7

2.7

References

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch

Patch

20001004 Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory

1746

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

bsd-fstat-format(5338)

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