National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0853
Orirignal release date: 1999-12-01
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in Netscape Enterprise Server and Netscape FastTrack Server allows remote attackers to gain privileges via the HTTP Basic Authentication procedure.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Enterprise Server (Netscape)
    FastTrack (Netscape)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0853