CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0116

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1996-09-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1996-09-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 3.2.5 • ibm aix 4.1 • ibm aix 4.2 • ibm sng 2.1 • ibm sng 2.2

References