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CVE-1999-0008

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-06-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in NIS+, in Sun's rpc.nisd program.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 10.34, 11.00
• Sun Solaris: 2.6
• Sunos: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/170
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/170

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