CVE-1999-1261 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Corporation Metamail

4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Metamail Corporation Metamail
Timeline
PublishedOct 24
Latest updateApr 17

Description

Buffer overflow in Rainbow Six Multiplayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long nickname (nick) command.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
VulDB
Red Storm Rainbow Six Nickname memory corruption (XFDB-1772)↗2026-04-17
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GHSA
GHSA-rmr2-r6pv-p7gw: Buffer overflow in Rainbow Six Multiplayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long n↗2022-04-30
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CVEList
CVE-1999-1261: Buffer overflow in Rainbow Six Multiplayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long n↗2001-09-12
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CVE-1999-1261 — Corporation Metamail vulnerability | cvebase