CVE-1999-0130: Bsdi Bsd OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd OS: version 2.1 only
• Caldera Network Desktop: version 1.0 only
• Eric Allman Sendmail: version 8.7 only; version 8.8 only; version 8.8.1 only; version 8.8.2 only
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.6 only
• HP HP-Ux: version 10.00 only; version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only
• IBM Aix: version 4.2 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 4.0 only

Published 1996-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.