CVE-2001-1015: SNES9X.COM SNES9X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Snes9x 1.37, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• SNES9X.COM SNES9X: version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.7 only

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