Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-1408. PoCs published by Cahya Wirawan.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a vulnerability in AIX and HP/UX systems where a sequence of two connect system calls to specific ports causes a system reboot. The PoC uses Perl to establish connections to ports 23 and 24 on localhost, triggering the flaw.
Description
Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by using a socket to connect to a port on the localhost, calling shutdown to clear the socket, then using the same socket to connect to a different port on localhost.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a vulnerability in AIX and HP/UX systems where a sequence of two connect system calls to specific ports causes a system reboot. The PoC uses Perl to establish connections to ports 23 and 24 on localhost, triggering the flaw.