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CVE-2001-1553

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2001-12-31 Modified: 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 Platforms

University Of California Seti At Home

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References