CVE-1999-1471: Bsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in passwd in BSD based operating systems 4.3 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a long shell or GECOS field.

Affected products

• Bsd Bsd: version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only

Published 1989-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.