Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0927

RCE

Title: GNOME libgtop_daemon format string vulnerability in syslog functions

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0927.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 27, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0927: Format string vulnerability in the permitted function of GNOME libgtop_daemon in libgtop 1.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument that contains format specifiers that are passed into the (1) syslog_message and (2) syslog_io_message functions.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libgtop/libgtop-1.0.13.tar.gz http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100689302316077&w=2 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-098 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libgtop/libgtop-1.0.13.tar.gz http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100689302316077&w=2 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-098

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0927 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 27, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.