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CVE-1999-0116

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1996-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 3.2.5, 4.1, 4.2
• IBM Sng: 2.1, 2.2

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136

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