CVE-1999-0116 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.

Published: 1999-09-29

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 9.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:3.2.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.2:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:h:ibm:sng:2.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:ibm:sng:2.2:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-0116	Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.09037.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19961202-01-PX
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Aix Sng

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 1999-09-29T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T16:27:57.689Z

Reserved: 1999-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-0116

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1996-09-19T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-0116

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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