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CVE-2001-0249

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-131

Description

Heap overflow in FTP daemon in Solaris 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by creating a long pathname and calling the LIST command, which uses glob to generate long strings.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.00
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 8
• Sgi Irix: from 6.5 through 6.5.20

References

• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-07.html
• http://www.nai.com/research/covert/advisories/048.asp
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2550
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6332
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-07.html
• http://www.nai.com/research/covert/advisories/048.asp
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2550
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6332

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