CVE-2001-0797: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 94.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.00 only; version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only; version 10.24 only; version 11.00 only; …
• IBM Aix: version 4.3 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3.2 only; version 4.3.3 only; version 5.1 only
• Sco Openserver: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only; …
• Sgi Irix: version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.3.1 only; version 3.3.2 only; version 3.3.3 only
• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; …

Published 2001-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.