Vulnerability in Richard Everitt Pileup
CVE-2001-0989
Buffer overflows in Pileup before 1.2 allows local users to gain root privileges via (1) long command line arguments, or (2) a long callsign.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (55.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 55.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Richard Everitt Pileup — versions 1.1
References
- www.babbage.demon.co.uk/linux/pileup-1.2/pileup-1.2.tar.gz
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-07/0512.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3086 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)