Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-1579

Title: UnixWare/OpenUnix timed program null termination DoS

Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-1579.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-1579: The timed program (in.timed) in UnixWare 7 and OpenUnix 8.0.0 does not properly terminate certain strings with a null, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Impacted Vendors

sco 2

novell 1

caldera 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2001-q4/0020.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2001-q4/0020.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-1579 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.