CVE-2001-0576: sco openserver

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2001-0576 is a medium (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability in sco openserver. EPSS estimates a 0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 27-07-2001
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

lpusers as included with SCO OpenServer 5.0 through 5.0.6 allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the '-u' command line parameter.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.