CVE-1999-1327

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

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 25 years ago

1999-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:02:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.1

5.1

References

19980601 Re: SECURITY: Red Hat Linux 5.1 linuxconf bug (fwd)

linuxconf-lang-bo(7239)

6065

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh51-errata-general.html#linuxconf

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