CVE-1999-0974

Summary

CVE-1999-0974 is a significant vulnerability affecting the Solaris operating system. This buffer overflow issue lies in the snoop utility's handling of GETQUOTA requests to the rpc.rquotad service. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely and gain root privileges on the targeted system. The buffer overflow occurs due to insufficient bounds checking in the rquotad process, which enables an attacker to inject malicious data and potentially execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability poses a severe risk to systems running the affected version of Solaris.

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