VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-1553

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-12-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in setiathome for SETI@home 3.03, if installed setuid, could allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line options (1) socks_server, (2) socks_user, and (3) socks_passwd. NOTE: since the default configuration of setiathome is not setuid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

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