CVE-2000-0701: Conectiva Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wrapper program in mailman 2.0beta3 and 2.0beta4 does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only
• GNU Mailman: version 2.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: any version

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.