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CVE-2001-1579

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The timed program (in.timed) in UnixWare 7 and OpenUnix 8.0.0 does not properly terminate certain strings with a null, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

• Sco Open Unix: 8.0.0
• Sco Unixware: 7

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2001-q4/0020.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2001-q4/0020.html

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