CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0048

Published: Jan 27, 1997 | Modified: Apr 16, 2026

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

10 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0048
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Talkd, when given corrupt DNS information, can be used to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Netkit	Debian	0.07 (including)	0.07 (including)

References

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll\u0026doc=secbull/147
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll\u0026doc=secbull/147

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