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CVE-1999-0023

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1996-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd Os: all versions
• FreeBSD: 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.2
• IBM AIX: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
• Inet: 5.01, 6.01
• Sco Internet Faststart: 1.0
• Sco Open Desktop: 2.0, 3.0
• Sco Openserver: 2.0, 5.0, 5.0.2
• Sco Tcp Ip: 1.2.0, 1.2.1
• Sco Unixware: 2.0, 2.1
• Sunos: 4.1.3, 4.1.3u1, 4.1.4, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+1)

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0023
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0023

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