CVE-1999-1583: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in nslookup for AIX 4.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long hostname command line argument.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 4.3 only

Published 1999-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.