Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1043

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:45:36
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Format string vulnerability in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.