Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0023

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
inet
sco
sun
ibm
freebsd
bsdi
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1996-07-24
Updated: 2022-08-17

Summary

Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Inet
2
OS
Sco
10
OS
Sun
8
OS
Ibm
3
OS
Freebsd
4
OS
Bsdi
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionBSDI BSD/OS 2.1,FreeBSD 2.1,IBM AIX 4.2,SGI IRIX 6.4,Sun SunOS 4.1.3. CVE-1999-0023. Local exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:19106
last seen2016-02-02
modified1996-07-03
published1996-07-03
reporterJeff Uphoff
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19106/
titleBSDI BSD/OS <= 2.1 & FreeBSD <= 2.1,IBM AIX <= 4.2,SGI IRIX <= 6.4 & Sun SunOS <= 4.1.3

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