CVE-1999-1419: Sun Solaris

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

Buffer overflow in nss_nisplus.so.1 library in NIS+ in Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only

Published 1997-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.