CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-1011

Published: Dec 11, 2000 | Modified: Oct 10, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Buffer overflow in catopen() function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long environmental variable.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.2 (including) 3.2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.3 (including) 3.3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.4 (including) 3.4 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.5 (including) 3.5 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 3.5.1 (including) 3.5.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 4.1 (including) 4.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 4.1.1 (including) 4.1.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 4.2 (including) 4.2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)

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