CVE-1999-0797

SunOS - Denial of Service via NIS Finger Request Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory government-resource x_refsource_ciac
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-070.shtml

Scores

EPSS 0.0055
EPSS Percentile 68.0%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
sun/sunos
Published Jun 29, 1998
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026