CVE-1999-1121

CVSS 2.0 Score 7.2 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Mar 19, 1992
Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Summary

CVE-1999-0181 is a vulnerability affecting the Wall daemon, which can be exploited for denial-of-service attacks, social engineering schemes, or even remote command execution. An attacker can send specially crafted packets to the Wall daemon, potentially gaining unauthorized access to a system or disrupting its services. This issue, first identified in 1999, poses a significant threat to network security. System administrators are advised to patch affected systems as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.

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