CVE-2000-1042: Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.

Affected products

• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only

Published 2000-12-11. Last modified 2026-09-23.