CVE-1999-0116
MediumPublished
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.
- Published
- Sep 29, 1999
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Sep 17, 2002
Primary CVSS
5.0/ 10Medium
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P5.6%
Low · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 92.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Nebunu · bsd · Sep 17, 2002
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