CVE-2000-1207

High CVSS 7.2

Published 2000-09-30 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-1207, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-1207

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C