CVE-2001-0207: Pierre Beyssac Bing

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in bing allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long hostname, which is copied to a small buffer after a reverse DNS lookup using the gethostbyaddr function.

Affected products

Published 2001-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.