CVE-1999-1449

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

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

First reported 27 years ago

1997-05-19 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:19:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS 4.1.4

4.1.4

References

19970519 /dev/tcx0 crashes SunOS 4.1.4 on Sparc 20's

Vendor Advisory

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/sunos.dev.tcx0.write.wierd.shit.to.device.bug.html

Vendor Advisory

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