CVE-2000-0844 Information

Description

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20000901-01-P http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0436.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0457.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0427.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/tru64/2000-q4/0000.html http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-030.0.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000902 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv5_draht_glibc_txt.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-057.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634 http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-September/000020.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5176