CVE-2000-1220: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 14.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; …
• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2000-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.