CVE-2001-1553: University Of California Seti At Home

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in setiathome for SETI@home 3.03, if installed setuid, could allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line options (1) socks_server, (2) socks_user, and (3) socks_passwd. NOTE: since the default configuration of setiathome is not setuid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

• University Of California Seti At Home: version 3.03 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.