Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-1164

Title: UnixWare uucp utilities buffer overflow via long arguments

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-1164.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 27, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.56%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-1164: Buffer overflow in uucp utilities in UnixWare 7 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to (1) uucp, (2) uux, (3) bnuconvert, (4) uucico, (5) uuxcmd, or (6) uuxqt.

Impacted Vendors

caldera 1

novell 1

Reference Links

ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/unixware/CSSA-2001-SCO.4/CSSA-2001-SCO.4.txt ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/unixware/CSSA-2001-SCO.4/CSSA-2001-SCO.4.txt

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-1164 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.

June 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.