Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1011

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

Buffer overflow in catopen() function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long environmental variable.