CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0752

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflows in brouted in FreeBSD and possibly other OSes allows local users to gain root privileges via long command line arguments.

Risk Assessment

Local users can exploit this vulnerability to gain full administrative privileges, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the system to the latest version and restrict access to brouted only to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflows in brouted in FreeBSD and possibly other OSes allows local users to gain root privileges via long command line arguments.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS