CVE-2002-0901 — Multiple buffer overflows in Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA) 2.3.0.4 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long commands to the amindexd daemon, or certain local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to the programs (2) amcheck, (3) amgetidx, (4) amtrmidx, (5) createindex-dump, or (6) createindex-gnutar

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Multiple buffer overflows in Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA) 2.3.0.4 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long commands to the amindexd daemon, or certain local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to the programs (2) amcheck, (3) amgetidx, (4) amtrmidx, (5) createindex-dump, or (6) createindex-gnutar

Published Aug 31, 2002

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 5.70%

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA) 2.3.0.4 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long commands to the amindexd daemon, or certain local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to the programs (2) amcheck, (3) amgetidx, (4) amtrmidx, (5) createindex-dump, or (6) createindex-gnutar.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

5.70% 0.05700

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.05700

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	5.70% (0.05700)	92.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	5.70% (0.05700)	92.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 23, 2026	6.29% (0.06289)	90.85th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Aug 4, 2025	8.26% (0.08257)	91.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 30, 2025	6.91% (0.06913)	90.51th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	10.77% (0.10774)	88.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	6.91% (0.06913)	90.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	2.27% (0.02273)	90.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	2.27% (0.02273)	87.87th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	6.52% (0.06523)	91.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	6.52% (0.06523)	90.53th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	6.52% (0.06523)	78.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/274215
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9181.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9182.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4836
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4840
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/274215		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9181.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9182.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4836		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4840		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 31, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Aug 16, 2002

Link CVE-2002-0901

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-0901

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-0901