CVE-1999-0306

Summary

CVE-1999-0306 denotes a buffer overflow vulnerability identified in HP xlock, a program used for locking and unlocking X11 sessions. This issue arises due to insufficient boundary checks during user input handling, leading to excess data being written into a buffer. An attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted data to the affected system, potentially causing the application to crash or enabling arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running xlock. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running HP xlock and requires immediate attention and patching.

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