CVE-2000-0172: Matt Kimball And Roger Wolff Mtr

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mtr program only uses a seteuid call when attempting to drop privileges, which could allow local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Matt Kimball And Roger Wolff Mtr: version 0.28 only; version 0.41 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: version 3.5b2 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.4 only; version 6.0.2 only

Published 2000-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.