01 Record
CVE-2000-0843
Buffer overflow in pam_smb and pam_ntdom pluggable authentication modules (PAM) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a login with a long user name.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in pam_smb and pam_ntdom pluggable authentication modules (PAM) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a login with a long user name.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2000-10-18 04:00Z26 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 05:37Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2000-10-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6a8a5a0c71d9b1467cbc1d22970209bf160c5b0e8912c247ec61e7db87ad1eb7
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com1666http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1666
- archives.neohapsis.com20000911 Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - pam_smbhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0114.html
- www.novell.com20000913 pam_smb remotely exploitable buffer overflowhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/adv8_draht_pam_smb_txt.html
- archives.neohapsis.com20000910 (SRADV00002) Remote root compromise through pam_smb and pam_ntdomhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0073.html
- www.debian.org20000911 libpam-smb: remote root exploithttp://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000911
- www.linux-mandrake.comMDKSA-2000:047http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/MDKSA-2000-047.php3