CVE-1999-0368: Caldera Openlinux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 39.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: version 1.3 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.0 only
• ProFTPD Project ProFTPD: version 1.2_pre1 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only
• Sco Openserver: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only
• Sco Unixware: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only
• Washington University Wu-Ftpd: version 2.4.2_beta18 only; version 2.4.2_beta18_vr9 only

Published 1999-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.