Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0973 - Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

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
sun
critical
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1999-12-07
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
11

Exploit-Db

descriptionSolaris 2.3/2.4/2.5/2.5.1/2.6/7.0 snoop (print_domain_name) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-1999-0973. Remote exploit for solaris platform
idEDB-ID:19663
last seen2016-02-02
modified1999-12-07
published1999-12-07
reporterK2
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19663/
titleSolaris 2.3/2.4/2.5/2.5.1/2.6/7.0 snoop print_domain_name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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