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HIGH

security flaw

Published Jan 22, 2001

Description

modprobe in the modutils 2.3.x package on Linux systems allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue was fixed in the following products: - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:108 (2000-12-20) - Red Hat Linux 7.0 - RHSA-2000:108 (2000-12-20)

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (12)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 22, 2001
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Dec 14, 2000
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Nov 12, 2000