CVE-1999-1182: Caldera Openlinux Lite

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux Lite: version 1.1 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Delix Dld: version 5.2 only
• Lst Lst Power Linux: version 2.2 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 5.0 only

Published 1997-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.