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CVE-1999-0234

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 1996-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Bash treats any character with a value of 255 as a command separator.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: all versions
• RedHat Linux: 3.0.3
• Sgi Irix: all versions
• Suse Linux: 4.2
• Yggdrasil Linux: all versions

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0234
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0234

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