Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1207

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-07-31 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 05:45:37

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).

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