CVE-1999-1261: Metamail Corporation Metamail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Rainbow Six Multiplayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long nickname (nick) command.

Affected products

• Metamail Corporation Metamail: up to and including 7.2

Published 1997-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.