CVE-2001-0763

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-0763
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-10-18 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in Linux xinetd 2.1.8.9pre11-1 and earlier may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long ident response, which is not properly handled by the svc_logprint function.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux All All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.3 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.4 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian GNU/Linux -- Security Information -- DSA-063-1 xinetd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
LinuxSecurity.com: EnGarde: 'xinetd' fixes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.linuxsecurity.com
SuSE Linux, xinetd Buffer Overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Xinetd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - potential buffer overflow in xinetd-2.1.8.9pre11-1 - From [email protected] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Vendor Advisory
download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-024-01 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 download.immunix.org
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