CVE-2000-0917: Caldera Openlinux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 78.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in use_syslog() function in LPRng 3.6.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: any version
• Caldera Openlinux Ebuilder: version 3.0 only
• Caldera Openlinux Edesktop: version 2.4 only
• Caldera Openlinux Eserver: version 2.3 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.0 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.