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CVE-1999-0002

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd Os: 1.1
• Caldera Openlinux: 1.2
• RedHat Linux: 2.0, 2.1, 3.0.3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 (+2)

References

• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/j-006.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/j-006.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121

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