CVE-2001-0797

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-12-12 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

HP HP-UX 10.00

10.00

HP HP-UX 10.01

10.01

HP HP-UX 10.10

10.10

HP HP-UX 10.20

10.20

HP HP-UX 10.24

10.24

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

HP HP-UX 11.0.4

11.0.4

HP-UX 11.11

11.11

IBM AIX 4.3

4.3

IBM AIX 4.3.1

4.3.1

IBM AIX 4.3.2

4.3.2

IBM AIX 4.3.3

4.3.3

IBM AIX 5.1

5.1

Sun Solaris 2.6

2.6

Sun SunOS (formerly Solaris)

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.0

5.0

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.1

5.1

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.2

5.2

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.3

5.3

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.4

5.4

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5

5.5

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1

5.5.1

Sun Microsystems Solaris 7

5.7

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

References

20011201-01-I

CSSA-2001-SCO.40

20011214 Sun Solaris login bug patches out

00213

IY26221

20011212 Buffer Overflow in /bin/login

Patch, Vendor Advisory

telnet-tab-bo(7284)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2025

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