National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2000-0733
Orirignal release date: 2000-10-20
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Telnetd telnet server in IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 does not properly cleans user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long RLD variable in the IAC-SB-TELOPT_ENVIRON request.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: access
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    IRIX (SGI)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0733