CVE-1999-1327 - Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable

HIGH

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable

Published Mar 9, 2002

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.43%

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221103125826&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7239.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.osvdb.org/6065		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh51-errata-general.html#linuxconf		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-1999-1308		Advisory

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 9, 2002

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Aug 31, 2001

CISA Vulnrichment

No data

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Red Hat

No data

ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 9, 2002

Updated Aug 1, 2024

GitHub

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