CVE-2001-0891

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerability in NQS daemon (nqsdaemon) in NQE 3.3.0.16 for CRAY UNICOS and SGI IRIX allows a local user to gain root privileges by using qsub to submit a batch job whose name contains formatting characters.

Format string vulnerability in NQS daemon (nqsdaemon) in NQE 3.3.0.16 for CRAY UNICOS and SGI IRIX allows a local user to gain root privileges by using qsub to submit a batch job whose name contains formatting characters.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2002-01-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Cray UNICOS

References

20020101-01-I

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20011127 UNICOS LOCAL HOLE ALL VERSIONS

3275

3590

unicos-nqsd-format-string(7618)

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