CVE-1999-0192: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; …
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only; version 3.9 only; …

Published 1997-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.