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Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 19, 1996
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-1999-0116

GHSA ID

GHSA-j56q-jrrm-mwmf

Source code

No known source code

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