FKIE_CVE-1999-0056

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 1998-09-09 04:00 - Updated: 2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in Sun's ping program can give root access to local users.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/174
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/174
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sun sunos *
sun sunos 5.3
sun sunos 5.4
sun sunos 5.5
sun sunos 5.5.1
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