CVE-1999-0797

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries.

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-06-29 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-09 12:35:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS (formerly Solaris)

References

I-070

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