Unscored USN-4801-1 1 CVE

root-system vulnerability

Published Mar 15, 2021 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that ROOT incorrectly handled certain input arguments. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS	root-system	5.34.14-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS	root-system	5.34.30-0ubuntu8+esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-2017-1000203

ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resul…

root-system Ubuntu

Nov 17, 2017

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000203