CVE-2000-0844
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 15.6% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2000-0831)
- Published
- November 14, 2000
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2000-0831 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 8, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- caldera / openlinux
- caldera / openlinux ebuilder
- caldera / openlinux eserver
- conectiva / linux
- conectiva / linux
- conectiva / linux
- conectiva / linux
- conectiva / linux
- conectiva / linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- immunix / immunix
- mandrakesoft / mandrake linux
- mandrakesoft / mandrake linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
and 24 more…
Certified products that may be affected
11 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v4.0 [1] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v5.0 [2] - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2657 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux on 32 bit x86 Architecture, Version 6.2 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0924-2014 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 dm-crypt Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1933 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1901 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Openswan Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1859 - historical
See all 11 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20000901-01-P
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html(Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634(Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5176
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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