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CVE-1999-0101

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1996-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2

References

• http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml
• http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml

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