CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1553

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• university of california seti at home 3.03

References