cve-2000-0994
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-01-22 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:37
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patchPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97068555106135&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1746Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5338
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