CVE-2000-0997: Netbsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerabilities in eeprom program in OpenBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other operating systems allows local attackers to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.6 only; version 2.7 only

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