CVE-2000-0438

N/A

Published: July 12, 2000 at 04:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:51 PM UTC

4 products affected across 4 vendorsSUSE LinuxSlackware LinuxOpenlinux

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1%

Description

Buffer overflow in fdmount on Linux systems allows local users in the "floppy" group to execute arbitrary commands via a long mountpoint parameter.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Openlinux · Caldera

95%

7.0

Slackware Linux · Slackware

95%

3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.9 4.0

SUSE Linux · SUSE

95%

4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4.1 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 7.0

Turbolinux · Turbolinux

95%

6.0 6.0.1 6.0.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0245.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1239

CVSS

7.2HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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