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lpusers as included with SCO OpenServer 5.0 through 5.0.6...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 30, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 22, 2001
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 30, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2001-0576

GHSA ID

GHSA-fvj2-vpv2-q7wf

Source code

No known source code

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