Vulnerability in University Of California Seti At Home
CVE-2001-1553
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (33.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- University_of_california Seti_at_home — versions 3.03
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_VULN-DEV)