CVE-2001-0670 (GCVE-0-2001-0670)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-09 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:30
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in BSD line printer daemon (in.lpd or lpd) in various BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an incomplete print job followed by a request to display the printer queue.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-30.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-147.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise94.php third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISS
ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openserver/C… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisori… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3252 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/274043 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.openbsd.com/errata28.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSD
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2001-08-29 00:00
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