CVE-2001-1442

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-1442
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-04-21 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c command line argument.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Isc Inn 2.0 All All All
Application Isc Inn 2.1 All All All
Application Isc Inn 2.2 All All All
Application Isc Inn 2.2.1 All All All
Application Isc Inn 2.2.2 All All All
Application Isc Inn 2.2.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#943536 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - Innfeed Buffer Overflow - From [email protected] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Exploit
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Innfeed Allows Local Users to Execute Arbitrary Code on the Server Under the News Group Privileges af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Exploit
innfeed Command-Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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