CVE-2000-0438: Caldera Openlinux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in fdmount on Linux systems allows local users in the "floppy" group to execute arbitrary commands via a long mountpoint parameter.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: version 7.0 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only; version 3.9 only; version 4.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; …
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only

Published 2000-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.