CVE-2000-0733: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 12.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Telnetd telnet server in IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 does not properly cleans user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long RLD variable in the IAC-SB-TELOPT_ENVIRON request.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; …

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