Vulnerability in Redhat Linux

CVE-1999-1327

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (35.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Linux — versions 5.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)