CVE-2000-0506

2000-10-1304:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.5%

JSON

The “capabilities” feature in Linux before 2.2.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by setting the capabilities to prevent a setuid program from dropping privileges, aka the “Linux kernel setuid/setcap vulnerability.”

References

ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/20000802-01-P

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0062.html

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0063.html

www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-037.html

www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322

www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.21.0006090852340.3475-300000%40alfa.elzabsoft.pl