CVE-2000-0172

Summary

CVE-2000-0172 is a vulnerability affecting the mtr (My Traceroute) program. The issue arises from the program's use of a seteuid call for privilege dropping, which is less secure than using setuid or setgid. An attacker with local access can potentially exploit this weakness to elevate their privileges to root level. This vulnerability highlights the importance of using secure methods for privilege management in software applications.

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