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CVE-2001-0670

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in BSD line printer daemon (in.lpd or lpd) in various BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an incomplete print job followed by a request to display the printer queue.

Affected products

• Bsd: through 4.1
• FreeBSD: through 4.3
• Netbsd: through 1.5.1
• OpenBSD: all versions

References

• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-30.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/274043
• http://www.openbsd.com/errata28.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-147.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3252
• http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise94.php
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7046
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-30.html

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