CVE-1999-0085: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in rwhod on AIX and other operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a UDP packet with a long hostname.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.2 only
• IBM Aix: version 4.2 only
• Netbsd Netbsd: version 2.0.4 only

Published 1996-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.