{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-0405 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0405 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-0405 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Sep 1999. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-0405 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-0405 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Sep 1999. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-0405 exists.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-0405/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-0405/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-0405","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-0405/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-0405","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-72r6-cpj9-gh8x"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"lsof utility","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A buffer overflow in lsof allows local users to gain root privileges, requiring immediate patching for system security.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"freebsd","vendor":"freebsd"},{"product":"linux","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"suse_linux","vendor":"suse"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"A buffer overflow in lsof allows local users to obtain root privilege.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"1999-02-17","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"1999-02-17","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19373","stars":null,"title":"Debian 2.0/2.0 r5 / FreeBSD 3.2 / OpenBSD 2.4 / RedHat 5.2 i386 / S.u.S.E 6.1 - 'Lsof' Local Buffer Overflow (1)"},{"date":"1999-02-17","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19374","stars":null,"title":"Debian 2.0/2.0 r5 / FreeBSD 3.2 / OpenBSD 2.4 / RedHat 5.2 i386 / S.u.S.E 6.1 - 'Lsof' Local Buffer Overflow (2)"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0405","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","freebsd:freebsd","redhat:linux","suse:suse_linux"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0406"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0404"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"1999-09-29","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A buffer overflow in lsof allows local users to gain root privileges, requiring immediate patching for system security.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-0405/"}