CVE-1999-0072

Summary

CVE-1999-0072 is a significant vulnerability affecting AIX (Advanced Interactive Executive) operating systems. This issue involves a buffer overflow in the xdat utility, which can be exploited by local users to gain root access. By sending specially crafted input to the xdat command, an attacker can write arbitrary data beyond the intended buffer, potentially overwriting crucial system memory and taking control of the system withroot privileges. This vulnerability poses a serious threat to the security and integrity of AIX systems that have not been patched.

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