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CVE-2001-1553

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in setiathome for SETI@home 3.03, if installed setuid, could allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line options (1) socks_server, (2) socks_user, and (3) socks_passwd. NOTE: since the default configuration of setiathome is not setuid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

• University Of California Seti At Home: 3.03

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2001-q4/0662.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2001-q4/0662.html

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