CVE-1999-0768: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron on Red Hat systems via the MAILTO environmental variable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.2 only; version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only

Published 1999-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.