CVE-2001-0989

HIGH 7.2CVE-2001-0989 · Published 23/07/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0989 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting pileup (richard everitt).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.83%, higher than 57.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pileup richard_everitt	`= 1.1`	No fix yet

Buffer overflows in Pileup before 1.2 allows local users to gain root privileges via (1) long command line arguments, or (2) a long callsign.

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