CVE-1999-0101 — Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names

Published Jan 18, 2000

No CVSS score

EPSS 7.84%

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

No remediation recorded yet.

7.84% 0.07837

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.07837

2022–2026

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	7.84% (0.07837)	94.51th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	7.90% (0.07901)	93.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	3.25% (0.03249)	86.27th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.60% (0.00595)	79.09th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.60% (0.00595)	77.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.98% (0.00983)	81.14th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	6.79% (0.06790)	92.15th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	6.79% (0.06790)	91.41th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	6.79% (0.06790)	79.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml
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Link	Providers	Tags
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml		third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIAC

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Sources

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 18, 2000

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Jun 7, 1999

Updated n/a

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Severity n/a

Public date n/a