CVE-2000-0844

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

This issue was fixed in the following products:

  • Red Hat Linux 5.0 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)
  • Red Hat Linux 5.1 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)
  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.0 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.1 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:057 (2000-09-01)

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