CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0101

10.0 HIGH Published 1996-12-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 1996-12-10
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 10.0 HIGH — AV: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.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 3.2 • ibm aix 4.1 • ibm aix 4.2

References

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml Vendor Advisory
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml Vendor Advisory