CVE-1999-0363

Summary

CVE-1999-0363 is a vulnerability affecting the SuSE 5.2 PLP lpc program. This issue involves a buffer overflow, which if exploited, grants an attacker unauthorized root access to the system. The lpc program, used for managing printer queues, fails to validate user input, enabling an attacker to overwrite memory and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running the affected version of SuSE Linux, as it allows for full compromise.

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