CVE-2001-0979: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in swverify in HP-UX 11.0, and possibly other programs, allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only; version 11.00 only

Published 2001-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.