CVE-1999-0129: Bsdi Bsd OS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sendmail allows local users to write to a file and gain group permissions via a .forward or :include: file.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd OS: version 2.1 only
• Eric Allman Sendmail: version 8.8 only; version 8.8.1 only; version 8.8.2 only; version 8.8.3 only
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.6 only; version 2.1.6.1 only
• HP HP-Ux: version 10.00 only; version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.16 only; version 10.20 only
• IBM Aix: version 3.2 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only
• Sco Internet Faststart: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only
• Sco Openserver: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.2 only
• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only
• Sun Sunos: version 4.1.3u1 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 1996-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.