CVE-2000-0733

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Telnetd telnet server in IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 does not properly cleans user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long RLD variable in the IAC-SB-TELOPT_ENVIRON request.

Affected products

Sgi Irix: 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.1, 6.2 (+12)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0154.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1572
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0154.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1572

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