CVE-2000-1042
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
10.0
HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
2.0%
79.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
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Published 2000-12-11 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
Buffer overflow in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.