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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2000-0949 json

Heap overflow in savestr function in LBNL traceroute 1.4a5 and earlier allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via the -g option.

published 2000-12-19 25 y ago modified 2026-09-23 46 d ago also EUVD-2000-0936

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
4
Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap overflow in savestr function in LBNL traceroute 1.4a5 and earlier allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via the -g option.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2000-0949 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20252)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20252 LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (3) local, 2000-09-28
  • EDB-20251 LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (2) local, 2000-09-28
  • EDB-20250 LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (1) local, 2000-09-28
  • EDB-178 LBL Traceroute - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2000-11-15
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1739 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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