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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-1999-0125 json

Buffer overflow in SGI IRIX mailx program.

published 1998-01-25 28 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0125

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in SGI IRIX mailx program.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-19311)

Exploit prediction

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19312 RedHat Linux 4.2 / SGI IRIX 6.3 / Solaris 2.6 - 'mailx' (2) local, 1998-06-25
  • EDB-19311 RedHat Linux 4.2 / SGI IRIX 6.3 / Solaris 2.6 - 'mailx' (1) local, 1998-06-20

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.