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CVE-1999-0101

N/A
Published: January 18, 2000 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:47 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAIX

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%

Description

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIACVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml

CVSS

10HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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