Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-1999-0381

super 3.11.6 and other versions have a buffer overflow in the syslog utility which allows a local user to gain root access.

EPSS: 0.007 (50.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.20.1
Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)