Security Advisory

CVE-2000-0993

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 05:37:32

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Format string vulnerability in pw_error function in BSD libutil library allows local users to gain root privileges via a malformed password in commands such as chpass or passwd.

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