7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2000-0824

Published: 14/11/2000 Updated: 10/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The unsetenv function in glibc 2.1.1 does not properly unset an environmental variable if the variable is provided twice to a program, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in setuid programs by specifying their own duplicate environmental variables such as LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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gnu glibc 2.1.1

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/650/info Lack of user input validation in ProFTPD can lead to a remote root vulnerability On systems that support it ProFTPD will attempt to modify the name of the program being executed (argv[0]) to display the command being executed by the logged on user It does this by using snprintf to copy the input ...