University Of California Seti At Home vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-1118 [HIGH] CVE-2003-1118: Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote attackers to cause a d Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and execute arbitrary code via a spoofed server response containing a long string followed by a \n (newline) character.

CVE-2001-1553 [MEDIUM] CVE-2001-1553: Buffer overflow in setiathome for SETI@home 3.03, if installed setuid, could allow local users to ex 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.