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CVE-1999-1449

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1997-05-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

Affected products

• Sunos: 4.1.4

References

• http://oamk.fi/~jukkao/bugtraq/before-971202/0498.html
• http://www.insecure.org/sploits/sunos.dev.tcx0.write.wierd.shit.to.device.bug.html
• http://oamk.fi/~jukkao/bugtraq/before-971202/0498.html
• http://www.insecure.org/sploits/sunos.dev.tcx0.write.wierd.shit.to.device.bug.html

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