CVE-2001-0797

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 94.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 10.00, 10.01, 10.10, 10.20, 10.24, 11.00 (+2)
IBM AIX: 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 5.1
Sco Openserver: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+2)
Sgi Irix: 3.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3
Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
Sunos: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+3)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100844757228307&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY26221&apar=only
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-34.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/569272
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246487
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3681
http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise105.php
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7284
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2025

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