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CVE-1999-0831

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1999-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Denial of service in Linux syslogd via a large number of connections.

Affected products

• Cobalt Qube: 1.0, 2.0
• Debian Linux: 2.2
• Sun Cobalt Raq: 1.1
• Sun Cobalt Raq 2: all versions
• Sun Cobalt Raq 3I: all versions
• Suse Linux: 6.2, 6.3

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/809
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/809

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