CVE-2001-0764: Juergen Schoenwaelder Scotty

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ntping in scotty 2.1.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long hostname as a command line argument.

Affected products

• Juergen Schoenwaelder Scotty: version 2.1.7 only; version 2.1.8 only; version 2.1.9 only; version 2.1.10 only

Published 2001-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.