National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2000-0993
Original release date:12/19/2000
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Format string vulnerability in pw_error function in BSD libutil library allows local users to gain root privileges via a malformed password in commands such as chpass or passwd.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: bsd-libutil-format
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 1744
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OPENBSD
Name: 20001003 A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error(3) function.
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20001004 Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory
External Source: NETBSD
Name: NetBSD-SA2000-015
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-00:58
