CVE-1999-0055

IBM AIX and Sun Solaris - Buffer Overflow in libnsl

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Buffer overflows in Sun libnsl allow root access.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_aixapar
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX80543&apar=only
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sun
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/172

Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.4%

Details

Status published
Products (15)
ibm/aix 4.2
ibm/aix 4.2.1
ibm/aix 4.3
ibm/aix 4.3.1
ibm/aix 4.3.2
sun/solaris 2.4
sun/solaris 2.5
sun/solaris 2.5.1 (2 CPE variants)
sun/solaris 2.6
sun/sunos
... and 5 more
Published May 14, 1998
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026