Security Advisory

CVE-2000-0844

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:37:30
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.