CVE-2000-1009

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

dump in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

dump in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

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

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-11 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 6.2

6.2

Trustix Secure Linux 1.1

1.1

References

20001030 Redhat 6.2 dump command executes external program with suid priviledge.

1871

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

linux-dump-execute-code(5437)

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