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CVE-1999-0002in critical feed1 exploit

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.

Published 28 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
10.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
27.9%
percentile 98%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

27.86% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-19096 RedHat Linux 5.1 / Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd · remote · 1998-08-28

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

  • ciac.org /ciac/bulletins/j-006.shtml · third-party-advisory, government-resource, x_refsource_CIAC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/121 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

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