CVE-1999-0023: Bsdi Bsd OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd OS: any version
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.5 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.2 only
• IBM Aix: version 3.2 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only
• Inet Inet: version 5.01 only; version 6.01 only
• Sco Internet Faststart: version 1.0 only
• Sco Open Desktop: version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only
• Sco Openserver: version 2.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.2 only
• Sco TCP IP: version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only
• Sco Unixware: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.3u1 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; …

Published 1996-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.