CVE-2000-1220

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2000-01-08
Bugzilla:
1616553: CVE-2000-1220 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.

Find out more about CVE-2000-1220 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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