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CVE-1999-1327

• 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: 1999-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

Affected products

• RedHat Linux: 5.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221103125826&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7239.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/6065
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh51-errata-general.html#linuxconf
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221103125826&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7239.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/6065
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh51-errata-general.html#linuxconf

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