CVE-1999-1588

CVE-1999-1588 describes a buffer overflow in the Sun Solaris x86 nlps_server (versions 2.4–2.5.1) that allows remote code execution as root. An attacker can send a crafted string beginning with "NLPS:002:002:" to the listen port (TCP 2766) to trigger the overflow. Affected component: nlps_server;...