CVE-1999-1435

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1998-07-10 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1435, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Buffer overflow in libsocks5 library of Socks 5 (socks5) 1.0r5 allows local users to gain privileges via long environmental variables.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1435

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C