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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-1999-0704 json

Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.

published 1999-09-16 27 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0686

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19479)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19479 BSD/OS 3.1/4.0.1 / FreeBSD 3.0/3.1/3.2 / RedHat Linux 6.0 - 'amd' Remote Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 1999-08-30
  • EDB-19478 BSD/OS 3.1/4.0.1 / FreeBSD 3.0/3.1/3.2 / RedHat Linux 6.0 - 'amd' Remote Buffer Overflow (1) remote, 1999-08-31

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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