CVE-1999-1423

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ping request to a multicast address through the loopback interface, e.g. via ping -i.

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ping request to a multicast address through the loopback interface, e.g. via ping -i.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 27 years ago

1997-06-26 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Sun Solaris 2.6

2.6

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.3

5.3

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.4

5.4

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5

5.5

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1

5.5.1

References

19970626 Solaris Ping bug (DoS)

19970627 SUMMARY: Solaris Ping bug (DoS)

19971005 Solaris Ping Bug and other [bc] oddities

19970627 Solaris Ping bug(inetsvc)

00146

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ping-multicast-loopback-dos(7492)

209

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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