CVE-1999-0101: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 3.2 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only

Published 1996-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.