What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-1389

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in xinetd 2.3.0 and earlier, and additional variants until 2.3.3, may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code, primarily via buffer overflows or improper NULL termination.

Affected products

• Xinetd: 2.1.8.8, 2.1.8.8_pre3, 2.1.8.9_pre1, 2.1.8.9_pre2, 2.1.8.9_pre3, 2.1.8.9_pre5 (+10)

References

• http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-033-01
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99913751525583&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-109.html
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-076.php3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3257
• http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-033-01
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99913751525583&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-109.html
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-076.php3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3257

Get alerted when CVE-2001-1389 or the next vulnerability affects your stack