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GCVE-110-CERTCC-2001-569272

GCVE-110-CERTCC-2001-569272
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published December 12, 2001
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in implementations of login, derived from System V. An attacker can use this vulnerability to gain the privileges of the process that invoked login, user root in the cases of in.telnetd, or in.rlogind. We have been able to determine that several vendors are affected.
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Risk Scores

certcc-cam
certcc-cam
impact20population15exploitation0widely_known1score_current18ease_of_exploitation10
certcc-vrda
certcc-vrda
d1_impact4d1_population3d1_direct_report1

Aliases

CVE-2001-0797

Transitive aliases

GHSA-xqmh-wj7x-9rxfEUVD-2001-0781GSD-2001-0797CVE-2002-1689GSD-2002-1689cisco-sa-20020410-solaris-bin-loginGHSA-rx82-m2fx-fwf6EUVD-2002-1670

References

System V derived login contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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System V derived login contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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System V derived login contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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System V derived login contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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