CVE-1999-0131: Bsdi Bsd OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd OS: version 2.1 only
• Digital Osf 1: version 1.3.2 only
• Eric Allman Sendmail: version 8.6 only; version 8.7.1 only; version 8.7.2 only; version 8.7.3 only; version 8.7.4 only; version 8.7.5 only
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.1.5 only
• HP HP-Ux: version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only
• IBM Aix: version 3.2 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 3.0.3 only
• Sco Internet Faststart: version 1.0 only
• Sco Openserver: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.2 only

Published 1996-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.