CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1208

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-07-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-07-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in ping in AIX 4.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 3.2.5 • ibm aix 4.1 • ibm aix 4.2

References