CVE-1999-0661

Summary

CVECVE-1999-0661
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published1999-01-01 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionA system is running a version of software that was replaced with a Trojan Horse at one of its distribution points, such as (1) TCP Wrappers 7.6, (2) util-linux 2.9g, (3) wuarchive ftpd (wuftpd) 2.2 and 2.1f, (4) IRC client (ircII) ircII 2.2.9, (5) OpenSSH 3.4p1, or (6) Sendmail 8.12.6.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CERT Advisory CA-1999-02 Trojan Horses af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
ISS X-Force Database: sendmail-backdoor (10313): Sendmail downloads could contain a backdoor af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net
'OpenSSH Security Advisory: Trojaned Distribution Files' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'trojan horse in recent openssh (version 3.4 portable 1)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CERT Advisory CA-1994-07 wuarchive ftpd Trojan Horse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
CERT Advisory CA-1994-14 Trojan Horse in IRC Client for UNIX af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
CERT Advisory CA-1999-01 Trojan horse version of TCP Wrappers af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com
CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
Sendmail Trojan Horse Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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