Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-0003 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-0003 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-0003?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 10, published 1 April 1998.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sun Microsystems Solaris 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1; Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.1.3, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1; SGI IRIX patches.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-0003?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-1999-0003 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-0003?
- Check whether you run Sgi Irix. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a classic buffer overflow within the rpc.ttdbserverd daemon, which is part of the ToolTalk message-passing system. The flaw is reachable over the network via RPC (Remote Procedure Call) without requiring authentication. By sending a specially crafted request to the Tooltalk database server, an attacker can overwrite memory to redirect execution flow. Successful exploitation results in arbitrary code execution as the root user, providing full system compromise. Patches were historically released by vendors such as Sun Microsystems and SGI.
Affected products
- Sun Microsystems Solaris 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
- Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.1.3, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1
- SGI IRIX patches
Timeline
- 1998-04-01: advisory: NVD Published Date
- 1998-11-01: advisory: SGI security advisory released