CVE-1999-1327: Red Hat Linux

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

Buffer overflow in linuxconf 1.11r11-rh2 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 5.1 only

Published 1999-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.