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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-1999-0192 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable.

published 1997-10-18 29 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0192

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.0%
EPSS 10.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-19465)

Exploit prediction

10.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19465 RedHat Linux 6.0 / Slackware Linux 4.0 - Termcap 'tgetent()' Local Buffer Overflow (2) local, 1999-08-18
  • EDB-19464 RedHat Linux 6.0 / Slackware Linux 4.0 - Termcap 'tgetent()' Local Buffer Overflow (1) local, 1999-08-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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