Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1111

7.5

Vulnerability Description

Vulnerability in StackGuard before 1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the Random and Terminator Canary security mechanisms by using a non-linear attack which directly modifies a pointer to a return address instead of using a buffer overflow to reach the return address entry itself.
Published Date November 9, 1999
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory