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CVE-1999-1574

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the lex routines of nslookup for AIX 4.3 may allow attackers to cause a core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code via "long input strings."

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 4.3.0

References

• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX79909&apar=only
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/182777
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7867
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX79909&apar=only
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/182777
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7867

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