Vulnerability in Caldera Openlinux
CVE-2000-0844
Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.156 (96.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.153 · newest: 0.156 · change: +0.003
Affected products
- Caldera Openlinux
- Caldera Openlinux Ebuilder — versions 3.0
- Caldera Openlinux Eserver — versions 2.3
- Conectiva Linux — versions 4.0, 4.0es, 4.1
- IBM Aix — versions 3.2, 3.2.4, 3.2.5
- Immunix — versions 6.2
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux — versions 7.0, 7.1
- Sgi Irix — versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
- Slackware Linux — versions 7.0, 7.1
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html (mailing-list)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902 (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt (vendor-advisory)