CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1471

Published: Jan 01, 1989 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1471
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Buffer overflow in passwd in BSD based operating systems 4.3 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a long shell or GECOS field.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Bsd	Bsd	4.2	4.2
Bsd	Bsd	4.3	4.3

References

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