CVE-1999-1445: Slackware Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in imapd and ipop3d in Slackware 3.4 and 3.3 with shadowing enabled, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a core dump via a short sequence of USER and PASS commands that do not provide valid usernames or passwords.

Affected products

• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only

Published 1998-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.