CVE-1999-1435: Nec Socks 5

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

Buffer overflow in libsocks5 library of Socks 5 (socks5) 1.0r5 allows local users to gain privileges via long environmental variables.

Affected products

• Nec Socks 5: version 1.0r5 only

Published 1998-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.