CVE-1999-0046 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the rlogin program, specifically exploitable via the TERM environmental variable. This flaw affects a wide range of operating systems including BSDi, Debian, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX, NetBSD, NeXTstep, Oracle, and Sun. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a high-severity threat allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) over the network with low attack complexity. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code for various affected systems is publicly available through ExploitDB, though there is no indication of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.93CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.93:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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