CVE-1999-0002 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability residing in the NFS mountd service that affects legacy systems running specific versions of RedHat Linux, Caldera, and BSD OS. This flaw carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit the system with low complexity to achieve full root access. While historical proof-of-concept code is available via ExploitDB, there is currently no indication of active exploitation, community discussion, or inclusion in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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