National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-1557
Orirignal release date: 2001-12-31
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in ftpd in IBM AIX 4.3 and 5.1 allows attackers to gain privileges.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    AIX (IBM)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-1557