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CVE-2001-0775

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in xloadimage 4.1 (aka xli 1.16 and 1.17) in Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a FACES format image containing a long (1) Firstname or (2) Lastname field.

Affected products

• Xli: 1.16, 1.17
• Xloadimage: 4.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-069
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6821.php
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_024_xli_txt.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-088.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/195823
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3006
• http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-069
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6821.php

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