CVE-2000-0987 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0987?

CVE-2000-0987 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Nov 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in oidldapd in Oracle 8.1.6 allow local users to gain privileges via a long "connect" command line parameter.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0987?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Oracle8i.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0987?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0987 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2000-0987 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0987 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2026-83059 Auth bypass in Oracle Internet Directory Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-61241 Auth bypass in Oracle Internet Directory Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-61248 Auth bypass in Oracle Internet Directory Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-83054 Auth bypass in Oracle Internet Directory Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-83060 Auth bypass in Oracle Internet Directory Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f5m7-2587-87mp.