CVE-2001-0927: Gnome Libgtop Daemon

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the permitted function of GNOME libgtop_daemon in libgtop 1.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument that contains format specifiers that are passed into the (1) syslog_message and (2) syslog_io_message functions.

Affected products

  • Gnome Libgtop Daemon: version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; version 1.0.9 only; version 1.0.12 only

Published 2001-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.