CVE-2000-1009: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dump in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 1.1 only

Published 2000-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.