CVE-2001-1442: ISC Inn

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c command line argument.

Affected products

• ISC Inn: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only

Published 2001-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.