CVE-1999-0691: Cde

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the AddSuLog function of the CDE dtaction utility allows local users to gain root privileges via a long user name.

Affected products

• Cde Cde: version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only
• Digital Unix: version 4.0d only; version 4.0e only; version 4.0f only
• IBM Aix: version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

Published 1999-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.