CVE-1999-1208

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in ping in AIX 4.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Buffer overflow in ping in AIX 4.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

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

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 27 years ago

1997-07-21 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 3.2.5

3.2.5

IBM AIX 4.1

4.1

IBM AIX 4.2

4.2

References

19970721 AIX ping (Exploit)

19970721 AIX ping, lchangelv, xlock fixes

ping-bo(803)

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