CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-1042

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

Buffer overflow in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mandrake_linux Mandrakesoft 6.1 (including) 6.1 (including)
Mandrake_linux Mandrakesoft 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Mandrake_linux Mandrakesoft 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)

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