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CVSSv2

CVE-2000-0017

Published: 21/12/1999 Updated: 17/08/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 1000
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in Linux linuxconf package allows remote malicious users to gain root privileges via a long parameter.

Vulnerability Trend

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/2352/info Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp An attacker supplying excess data to the USER_AGENT field in vulnerable versions of Linuxconf This data can overflow the relevant buffer, creating a stack overflow and, properly exploited, allowing remote execution of arbitrary code as ro ...