CVE

Id
2487  
CVE No.
CVE-2000-0918  
Status
Candidate  
Description
Format string vulnerability in kvt in KDE 1.1.2 may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a DISPLAY environmental variable that contains formatting characters.  
Phase
Proposed (20001129)  
Votes
ACCEPT(2) Baker, Mell | NOOP(2) Cole, Wall | REVIEWING(1) Christey  
Comments
Christey> May be a duplicate of CVE-2000-0373, but the ref"s in that CVE | are vague. I suspect this *isn"t* a duplicate because this is | a format string problem. | Baker> I think it is sufficiently different from 2000-0373.