CVE-2001-1389: Xinetd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple vulnerabilities in xinetd 2.3.0 and earlier, and additional variants until 2.3.3, may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code, primarily via buffer overflows or improper NULL termination.

Affected products

• Xinetd Xinetd: version 2.1.8.8 only; version 2.1.8.8_pre3 only; version 2.1.8.9_pre1 only; version 2.1.8.9_pre2 only; version 2.1.8.9_pre3 only; version 2.1.8.9_pre5 only; …

Published 2001-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.