CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1066

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-12-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-12-22
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

Quake 1 server responds to an initial UDP game connection request with a large amount of traffic, which allows remote attackers to use the server as an amplifier in a "Smurf" style attack on another host, by spoofing the connection request.

Affected configurations

• sgi quake 1 server

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-406 Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification) weakness

References