CVE-1999-0139: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Solaris x86 mkcookie allows local users to obtain root access.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 7.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified

Published 1998-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.