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CVE-1999-0216

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1997-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Denial of service of inetd on Linux through SYN and RST packets.

Affected products

• GNU Inet: 5.01
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 10
• Linux kernel: 2.6.20.1

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0216
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0216

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