CVE-1999-0032

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in lpr, as used in BSD-based systems including Linux, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via a long -C (classification) command line option.

Buffer overflow in lpr, as used in BSD-based systems including Linux, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via a long -C (classification) command line option.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 28 years ago

1996-10-25 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-09 12:33:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 5.0.1

5.0.1

SGI IRIX 5.1

5.1

SGI IRIX 5.1.1

5.1.1

SGI IRIX 5.2

5.2

SGI IRIX 5.3

5.3

SGI IRIX 6.0

6.0

SGI IRIX 6.0.1

6.0.1

SGI IRIX 6.1

6.1

SGI IRIX 6.2

6.2

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

SGI IRIX 6.4

6.4

FreeBSD 2.0

2.0

FreeBSD 2.0.5

2.0.5

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

Sun SunOS 4.1.3u1

4.1.3u1

Sun SunOS 4.1.4

4.1.4

References

19980402-01-PX

I-042

707

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