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CVE-1999-1574

CVE information

Published

25 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Description

Buffer overflow in the lex routines of nslookup for AIX 4.3 may allow attackers to cause a core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code via "long input strings.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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