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CVE-2000-1214

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-1214 describes buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the 'outpack' or 'buf' variables of the 'ping' utility within iputils, affecting versions prior to 20001010, particularly on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), indicating that a local attacker could exploit it with low complexity to gain privileges, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2000-10-10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:iputils:iputils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:*
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-1214

security flaw

Oct 18, 2000

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html
marc.info
marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/5431.php
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/1813