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CVE-1999-0096

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1996-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sendmail decode alias can be used to overwrite sensitive files.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd Os: all versions
• FreeBSD: 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.6.1
• Sco Internet Faststart: 1.0, 1.1
• Sco Openserver: 5.0, 5.0.2

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/122&type=0&nav=sec.sba
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/122&type=0&nav=sec.sba

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