FreeBSD : seti@home remotely exploitable buffer overflow (176)

The following package needs to be updated: setiathome %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg0e154a9c5d7a11d880e30020ed76ef5a.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/02. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright...

CVE-2001-1553

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 socksserver, 2 socksuser, and 3 sockspasswd. NOTE: since the default configuration of setiathome is not setuid, perhaps this issue should not be...