CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1379
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1999-12-31
- 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
DNS allows remote attackers to use DNS name servers as traffic amplifiers via a UDP DNS query with a spoofed source address, which produces more traffic to the victim than was sent by the attacker.
Affected configurations
• dnstools software dnstools
Related
References
- ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/advisory/AL-1999.004.dns_dos Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/j-063.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93348057829957&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93433758607623&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7238.php www.iss.net
- ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/advisory/AL-1999.004.dns_dos Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/j-063.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93348057829957&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93433758607623&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7238.php www.iss.net