01 Record
CVE-2000-0949
Heap overflow in savestr function in LBNL traceroute 1.4a5 and earlier allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via the -g option.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Heap overflow in savestr function in LBNL traceroute 1.4a5 and earlier allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via the -g option.
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
- 1.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 67.0% 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 2026-09-23.
- 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
- 2001-01-22 05:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 05:37Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2000-11-24
- 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
- 6f4668d871f4a2d7b0948d654e6d28172ea276be63f5200ace2ddf9fb1030dbf
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.turbolinux.comTLSA2000023-1http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-October/000025.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comtraceroute-heap-overflow(5311)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5311
- www.linux-mandrake.comMDKSA-2000:053http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/MDKSA-2000-053.php3?dis=7.1
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2000:078http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-078.html
- archives.neohapsis.com20000930 Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - traceroutehttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0357.html
- www.securityfocus.com1739http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1739
- www.debian.org20001013 traceroute: local root exploithttp://www.debian.org/security/2000/20001013
- www.calderasystems.comCSSA-2000-034.0http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-034.0.txt
- archives.neohapsis.com20000928 Very interesting traceroute flawhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0344.html