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CVE-2000-0844

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: all versions
• Caldera Openlinux Ebuilder: 3.0
• Caldera Openlinux Eserver: 2.3
• Conectiva Linux: 4.0, 4.0es, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1
• Debian Linux: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
• IBM AIX: 3.2, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1 (+9)
• Immunix: 6.2
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 7.0, 7.1
• RedHat Linux: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
• Sgi Irix: 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2m (+7)
• Slackware Linux: 7.0, 7.1
• Sun Solaris: 2.6
• Sunos: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+3)
• Suse Linux: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0
• Trustix Secure Linux: 1.0, 1.1
• Turbolinux: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4

References

• 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

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