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CVE-1999-0055

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-05-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflows in Sun libnsl allow root access.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2
• Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
• Sunos: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/172
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX80543&apar=only
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/172
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX80543&apar=only

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