Security Advisory

CVE-2000-0506

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2000-10-13 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:21:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The "capabilities" feature in Linux before 2.2.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by setting the capabilities to prevent a setuid program from dropping privileges, aka the "Linux kernel setuid/setcap vulnerability."