CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0986

Published: Dec 08, 1999 | Modified: Sep 09, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The ping command in Linux 2.0.3x allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending large packets with the -R (record route) option.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Debian_linux Debian 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.34 (including) 2.0.34 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.35 (including) 2.0.35 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.36 (including) 2.0.36 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.37 (including) 2.0.37 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.38 (including) 2.0.38 (including)
Linux Redhat 5.2 (including) 5.2 (including)

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