CVE-2000-0995
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-01-22 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:37
Severity ?
Summary
Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD yp_passwd program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows attackers to gain root privileges a malformed name.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patchPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/6125
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5635
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patchPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/6125
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5635
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