CVE-1999-0055 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Buffer overflows in Sun libnsl allow root access.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Ibm	Aix
Sun	Solaris Sunos

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.2.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.4::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5.1::ppc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5.1::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5.1:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/172
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX80543&apar=only

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 1999-09-29T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T16:27:57.271Z

Reserved: 1999-06-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-0055

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1998-05-14T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-0055

Redhat

No data.

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