VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-0101

CVSS score10 HIGH
EPSS probability8.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1996-12-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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

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