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CVE-2000-0391

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in krshd in Kerberos 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Cygnus Network Security: 4.0
• Cygnus Kerbnet: 5.0
• MIT Kerberos: 4.0
• MIT Kerberos 5: 1.0, 1.1.1
• RedHat Linux: 6.2

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0184.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-05/0295.html
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-06.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/4876
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-025.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1220
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0184.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-05/0295.html
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-06.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/4876
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-025.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1220

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