Bug 1616547 (CVE-2000-1207) - CVE-2000-1207 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2000-1207 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2000-1207
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 01:08 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2024-04-17 07:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 01:09:02 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:08:56 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 17:05:48 UTC 
MITRE description:

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).
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