CVE-2000-0506: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 11.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "capabilities" feature in Linux before 2.2.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by setting the capabilities to prevent a setuid program from dropping privileges, aka the "Linux kernel setuid/setcap vulnerability."

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.30 only; version 2.0.33 only; version 2.0.34 only; version 2.0.35 only; version 2.0.36 only; …

Published 2000-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.