Bug 1616517 (CVE-2000-0844) - CVE-2000-0844 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2000-0844 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2000-0844
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 01:03 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-11-12 20:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 01:03:50 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:03:42 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:03:46 UTC 
MITRE 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.
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