CVE-2000-0186: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the dump utility in the Linux ext2fs backup package allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.4 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: version 4.2 only; version 4.4 only; version 6.0.2 only

Published 2000-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.