CVE-2000-1207

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).

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

2000-09-30 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:09:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux

References

20000930 glibc and userhelper - local root

20001003 SuSE: userhelper/usermode

MDKSA-2000:059

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2000:075

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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