Conectiva's vulnerability profile centers on its Linux distribution, which historically served as a widely deployed platform across Latin American and enterprise environments. The vendor's disclosures reflect the characteristic attack surface of a Linux operating system: a spectrum of low-level memory-safety and input-handling weaknesses including buffer overflows, improper input validation, and link-resolution flaws endemic to native system software. Public exploit code frequently becomes available for vulnerabilities of these classes, reflecting the transparency of open-source development and the appeal of kernel and core-utility targets. Defenders relying on this distribution should track upstream Linux kernel and component vulnerabilities closely, as patches flow through the Conectiva release cycle; current exploitation activity and severity counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Conectiva over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (66 CVEs).
66 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2003-0780HIGH Buffer overflow in get_salt_from_password from sql_acl.cc for MySQL 4.0.14 and earlier, and 3.23.x, allows attackers with ALTER TABLE privileges to execute arbitrary code via a lon | Sep 22, 2003 | 9.0 | 75 | NO | YES |
CVE-2000-0666HIGH rpc.statd in the nfs-utils package in various Linux distributions does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges. | Jul 16, 2000 | 10.0 | 52 | NO | YES |
CVE-2004-0557HIGH Multiple buffer overflows in the st_wavstartread function in wav.c for Sound eXchange (SoX) 12.17.2 through 12.17.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain WAV | Aug 6, 2004 | 10.0 | 48 | NO | YES |
CVE-2002-0083CRITICAL Off-by-one error in the channel code of OpenSSH 2.0 through 3.0.2 allows local users or remote malicious servers to gain privileges. | Mar 15, 2002 | 9.8 | 48 | NO | YES |
CVE-2001-0136MEDIUM Memory leak in ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of USER commands, and possibly SIZE commands if the server has been improperly ins | Mar 12, 2001 | 5.0 | 45 | NO | YES |
CVE-2000-0844HIGH Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via fun | Nov 14, 2000 | 10.0 | 44 | NO | YES |
CVE-2004-1029HIGH The Sun Java Plugin capability in Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_04, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly restrict access between Javascript and Java | Mar 1, 2005 | 9.3 | 41 | NO | YES |
CVE-2001-0690HIGH Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format st | Sep 20, 2001 | 7.5 | 38 | NO | YES |
CVE-2004-0882HIGH Buffer overflow in the QFILEPATHINFO request handler in Samba 3.0.x through 3.0.7 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TRANSACT2_QFILEPATHINFO request with a | Jan 27, 2005 | 10.0 | 37 | NO | NO |
CVE-2004-0902HIGH Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of ser | Jan 27, 2005 | 10.0 | 35 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (66 CVEs).
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