National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0178
Orirignal release date: 1997-01-01
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The win-c-sample program in the WebSite web server has a buffer overflow that allows remote execution of commands.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Website (OReilly Software)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0178