CVE-2001-0825

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in internal string handling routines of xinetd before 2.1.8.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a length argument of zero or less, which disables the length check.

Buffer overflow in internal string handling routines of xinetd before 2.1.8.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a length argument of zero or less, which disables the length check.

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

2001-12-06 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

Xinetd

References

CLA-2001:406

Patch, Vendor Advisory

IMNX-2001-70-029-01

RHSA-2001:092

Patch, Vendor Advisory

2971

Patch, Vendor Advisory

xinetd-zero-length-bo(6804)

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