CVE-1999-0949: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in canuum program for Canna input system allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.3 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only
• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.7 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: version 4.2 only

Published 1999-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.