CVE-2000-0170 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the 'man' program affecting Red Hat and TurboLinux distributions. This local privilege escalation flaw allows an attacker to gain root privileges by manipulating the MANPAGER environmental variable. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), it presents a critical risk due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.