CVE-2000-0999

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerabilities in OpenBSD ssh program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allow attackers to gain root privileges.

Format string vulnerabilities in OpenBSD ssh program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allow attackers to gain root privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-11 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:22:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD OpenSSH 4.5

4.5

References

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

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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