CVE-1999-0002
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 27.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 27.9% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-1999-0002)
- Published
- October 12, 1998
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-1999-0002 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 1, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bsdi / bsd os
- caldera / openlinux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
Certified products that may be affected
5 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 with CPACF - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2798 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2742 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Libreswan Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2721 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2711 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v4.0 [1] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v5.0 [2] - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2657 - historical
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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