Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-1579 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in SCO Open Unix and Unixware

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
sco

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sco
2