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CVE-1999-0837

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1999-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Denial of service in BIND by improperly closing TCP sessions via so_linger.

Affected products

• ISC BIND: 8.2, 8.2.1
• Sun Solaris: 7.0
• Sunos: 5.7

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/194
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/788
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/194
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/788

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