CVE detail

CVE-1999-1107 — CVE-1999-1107

Published 1998-11-18 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor kde · Product kde · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0036

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

29.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Buffer overflow in kppp in KDE allows local users to gain root access via a long PATH environmental variable.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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