cve-1999-0116
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
1999-09-29 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 16:27
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19961202-01-PX
cve@mitre.orghttp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136
Impacted products
n/an/a
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