CVE-1999-1449 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

Published: 2001-09-12

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very 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

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-1999-1430	SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

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 0.00051.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://oamk.fi/~jukkao/bugtraq/before-971202/0498.html
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/sunos.dev.tcx0.write.wierd.shit.to.device.bug.html

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Sunos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:03.262Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1449

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1997-05-19T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-1999-1449

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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