Vulnerability in Bsdi BSD OS
CVE-1999-0023
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (54.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 54.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bsdi BSD OS
- FreeBSD — versions 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0
- IBM Aix — versions 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
- Inet — versions 5.01, 6.01
- SCO Internet Faststart — versions 1.0
- SCO Open Desktop — versions 2.0, 3.0
- SCO Openserver — versions 2.0, 5.0, 5.0.2
- SCO Tcp Ip — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1
- SCO Unixware — versions 2.0, 2.1
- Sun Sunos — versions 4.1.3, 4.1.3u1, 4.1.4