CVE-2001-0670

N/A Unknown

Published: October 03, 2001 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in BSD line printer daemon (in.lpd or lpd) in various BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an incomplete print job followed by a request to display the printer queue.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-018.txt.asc

Source: cve@mitre.org

ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openserver/CSSA-2001-SCO.20/CSSA-2001-SCO.20.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-30.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/274043

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.openbsd.com/errata28.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-147.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3252

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise94.php

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7046

Source: cve@mitre.org

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-018.txt.asc