CVE-1999-1574

critical

Description

Buffer overflow in the lex routines of nslookup for AIX 4.3 may allow attackers to cause a core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code via "long input strings."

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7867

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/182777

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IX79909&apar=only

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 1998-07-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01751