CVE-2000-0996

N/A

Description

Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD su program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows local attackers to gain root privileges via a malformed shell.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/19/2000

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

openbsd:openbsd

References

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/6124(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5636(cve@mitre.org)

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/6124(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5636(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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