CVE-2000-0751

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mopd (Maintenance Operations Protocol loader daemon) does not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

Netbsd: 1.4.1, 1.4.2
OpenBSD: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
RedHat Linux: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0064.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0336.html
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/usr.sbin/mopd/mopd/process.c.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8&f=h
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#mopd
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-050.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1559
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0064.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0336.html
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/usr.sbin/mopd/mopd/process.c.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8&f=h
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#mopd
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-050.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1559

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