Vulnerability in Bsdi BSD OS
CVE-1999-0131
Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.
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: 0.006 (45.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 45.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bsdi BSD OS — versions 2.1
- Digital Osf 1 — versions 1.3.2
- Eric Allman Sendmail — versions 8.6, 8.7.1, 8.7.2
- FreeBSD — versions 2.1.5
- HP Hp-Ux — versions 10.01, 10.10, 10.20
- IBM Aix — versions 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
- SCO Internet Faststart — versions 1.0
- SCO Openserver — versions 5.0, 5.0.2
- Red Hat Linux — versions 3.0.3
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/717 (vdb-entry)