CVE-1999-0973

published 1999-12-07

CVE-1999-0973: Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Priority P3 40 critical 10 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—

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