CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0101

Published: Dec 10, 1996 | 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-1999-0101
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris gethostbyname library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Aix	Ibm	3.2 (including)	3.2 (including)
Aix	Ibm	4.1 (including)	4.1 (including)
Aix	Ibm	4.2 (including)	4.2 (including)

References

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