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CVE-2000-0844

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Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5176

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2000-0831

http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902

http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2000-11-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.15349

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