CVE-2000-0844

First published: Tue Nov 14 2000(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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