CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-0006
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1998-07-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
Buffer overflow in POP servers based on BSD/Qualcomm's qpopper allows remote attackers to gain root access using a long PASS command.
Affected configurations
• qualcomm qpopper 2.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980801-01-I patches.sgi.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/133 www.securityfocus.com
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980801-01-I patches.sgi.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/133 www.securityfocus.com