Back to CVE Browser

CVE-2001-0579

HIGH

7.5

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1430%

EPSS Percentile13.52th

PublishedAug 22, 2001

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability Description

lpadmin in SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the first argument to the command.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

💻

Sco

Openserver

<= 5.0.6

References & Advisories

🔗 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0421.html

🔗 http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html

🔗 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6291

🔗 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0421.html

🔗 http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html

🔗 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6291

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-030610.0

Buffer overflow in calserver in SCO OpenServer allows remote attackers to gain root access via a long message.

CVE-2020-254949.8

Xinuos (formerly SCO) Openserver v5 and v6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in outputform o...

CVE-1999-14507.5

Vulnerability in (1) rlogin daemon rshd and (2) scheme on SCO UNIX OpenServer 5.0.5 and earlier, and SCO UnixWare 7.0.1 and earlie...

CVE-2004-03907.5

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 through 5.0.7 only supports Xauthority style access control when users log in using scologin, which allows re...