Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0101 - Unspecified vulnerability in IBM AIX 3.2/4.1/4.2

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
ibm
critical
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1996-12-10
Updated: 2008-09-09

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Ibm
3

Exploit-Db

descriptionAIX 3.x/4.x,Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4,SunOS 5 gethostbyname() Buffer Overflow. CVE-1999-0101 . Remote exploits for multiple platform
idEDB-ID:22251
last seen2016-02-02
modified2006-09-28
published2006-09-28
reporterRoMaNSoFt
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/22251/
titleAIX 3.x/4.x & Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4 & SunOS 5 gethostbyname - Buffer Overflow

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionNo description provided by source.
idSSV:76060
last seen2017-11-19
modified2014-07-01
published2014-07-01
reporterRoot
sourcehttps://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-76060
titleAIX 3.x/4.x,Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4,SunOS 5 gethostbyname() Buffer Overflow

References