CVE-2001-1579: Sco Open Unix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The timed program (in.timed) in UnixWare 7 and OpenUnix 8.0.0 does not properly terminate certain strings with a null, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

  • Sco Open Unix: version 8.0.0 only
  • Sco Unixware: version 7 only

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