CVE-2001-1553 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2001-q4/0662.html