CVE-1999-0808
Multiple buffer overflows in ISC DHCP Distribution server (dhcpd) 1.0 and 2.0 allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long options.
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Multiple buffer overflows in ISC DHCP Distribution server (dhcpd) 1.0 and 2.0 allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long options.
Memory leak in SNMP agent in Windows NT 4.0 before SP5 allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of queries.
IIS 3.0 and 4.0 on x86 and Alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed GET request, aka the IIS "GET" vulnerability.
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and 5.0 does not properly handle (1) malformed NNTP data, or (2) malformed SMTP data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application error).
Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing…
Windows NT 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via extra source routing data such as (1) a Routing Information Field (RIF) field with a hop count greater than 7, or (2) a…
FTP service in IIS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via many passive (PASV) connections at the same time.
Tcpip.sys in Windows NT 4.0 before SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an ICMP Subnet Mask Address Request packet, when certain multiple IP addresses are bound to the same ne…
Netbt.sys in Windows NT 4.0 allows remote malicious DNS servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by returning 0.0.0.0 as the IP address for a DNS host name lookup.
IIS 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request to an ASP page in which the URL contains a large number of / (forward slash) characters.
Buffer overflow in nftp FTP client version 1.40 allows remote malicious FTP servers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long response string.
mod_proxy in Apache 1.2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed FTP commands, which causes Apache to dump core.
Vulnerabilities in DECnet/OSI for OpenVMS before 5.8 on DEC Alpha AXP and VAX/VMS systems allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service.
netcfg 2.16-1 in Red Hat Linux 4.2 allows the Ethernet interface to be controlled by users on reboot when an option is set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by shutting down the…
Vulnerability when Network Address Translation (NAT) is enabled in Linux 2.2.10 and earlier with ipchains, or FreeBSD 3.2 with ipfw, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic…
Windows NT 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via a user mode application that closes a handle that was opened in kernel mode, which causes a crash when the kernel attempts to close…
Win32k.sys in Windows NT 4.0 before SP2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling certain WIN32K functions with incorrect parameters.
Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by running a program that creates a large number of locks on a file, which exhausts the NonPagedPool.
Windows NT 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an illegal kernel mode address to the functions (1) GetThreadContext or (2) SetThreadContext.
A bug in Intel Pentium processor (MMX and Overdrive) allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) in Intel-based operating systems such as Windows NT and Windows 95, via an invalid instruct…
ip_input.c in BSD-derived TCP/IP implementations allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via crafted packets.
Trend Micro PC-Cillin does not restrict access to its internal proxy port, allowing remote attackers to conduct a denial of service.
Buffer overflow in CSM mail server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute commands via a long HELO command.
Denial of service in Savant web server via a null character in the requested URL.
Buffer overflow in aVirt Rover POP3 server 1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long user name.
RealMedia server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long ramgen request.
Sendmail before 8.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a series of ETRN commands then disconnecting from the server, while Sendmail continues to process the commands a…
Buffer overflow in Lotus Domino HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.
DNS PRO allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connections.
Windows NT Local Security Authority (LSA) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed arguments to the LsaLookupSids function which looks up the SID, aka "Malformed Security Id…
War FTP Daemon 1.70 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding it with connections.
The ping command in Linux 2.0.3x allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending large packets with the -R (record route) option.
Sendmail allows local users to reinitialize the aliases database via the newaliases command, then cause a denial of service by interrupting Sendmail.
Buffer overflow in GoodTech Telnet Server NT allows remote users to cause a denial of service via a long login name.
Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server allows local users to cause a denial of service via a malformed RETR command.
Buffer overflow in Serv-U FTP 2.5 allows remote users to conduct a denial of service via the SITE command.
Denial of service in MDaemon 2.7 via a large number of connection attempts.
Denial of service in MDaemon WorldClient and WebConfig services via a long URL.
Buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 for Windows 95 and Windows 98 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument…
Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware 2.x can only handle 200 ARP requests per second allowing a denial of service attack to succeed with a flood of ARP requests exceeding that limit.
Linux gpm program allows local users to cause a denial of service by flooding the /dev/gpmctl device with STREAM sockets.
Buffer overflow in Vermillion FTP Daemon VFTPD 1.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via several long CWD commands.
Denial of service in Linux syslogd via a large number of connections.
Microsoft SQL 7.0 server allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed TDS packet.
Gene6 G6 FTP Server 2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a long (1) user name or (2) password.
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.
Denial of service in BIND named via malformed SIG records.
Denial of service in BIND by improperly closing TCP sessions via so_linger.
Denial of service in BIND named via consuming more than "fdmax" file descriptors.
Denial of service in BIND named via maxdname.
Denial of service in BIND named via naptr.
Buffer overflows in Xtramail 1.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via (1) a long PASS command in the POP3 service, (2) a long HELO command…
Buffer overflow in FTP server in QPC Software's QVT/Term Plus versions 4.2d and 4.3 and QVT/Net 4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via…
Eicon Technology Diva LAN ISDN modem allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) via a long password argument to the login.htm file in its HTTP service.
Denial of service in Cisco routers running NAT via a PORT command from an FTP client to a Telnet port.
Buffer overflows in Windows NT 4.0 print spooler allow remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a malformed spooler request.
Palm Pilot HotSync Manager 3.0.4 in Windows 98 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long string to port 14238 while the manager is in n…
Buffer overflow in BFTelnet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long username.
Netscape Messaging Server 3.54, 3.55, and 3.6 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of long RCPT TO commands.
Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long certificate key.
LSA (LSASS.EXE) in Windows NT 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a NULL policy handle in a call to (1) SamrOpenDomain, (2) SamrEnumDomainUsers, and (3) SamrQueryDomainInfo.
Denial of service in Axent Raptor firewall via malformed zero-length IP options.
ICQ ActiveList Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed packets to the server's UDP port.
HTTP server for Xerox DocuColor 4 LP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a long URL that contains a large number of . characters.
The IDENT server in Caldera Linux 2.3 creates multiple threads for each IDENT request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
NFS daemon (nfsd.exe) for Omni-NFS/X 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via certain packets, possibly with the Urgent (URG) flag set, to port 111.
Buffer overflow in Sambar Web Server 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long HTTP GET request.
Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.
Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) LIST, (2) TOP, or (3) UIDL commands using letters as arguments.
Buffer overflow in Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute commands via a long username.
Buffer overflow in Yahoo Pager/Messenger client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL within a message.
Arkiea nlservd allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service.
Denial of service in Solaris TCP streams driver via a malicious connection that causes the server to panic as a result of recursive calls to mutex_enter.
FreeBSD VFS cache (vfs_cache) allows local users to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of files.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then…
UnityMail allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of MIME headers.
Apache allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of MIME headers.
FreeBSD 3.2 and possibly other versions allows a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) with a large number accesses of an NFS v3 mounted directory from a large number of processes.
A non-default configuration in TenFour TFS Gateway 4.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via messages with incorrect sender and recipient addresses, which causes the gateway to continuo…
Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to caus…
Denial of service in Debian IRC Epic/epic4 client via a long string.
Multiple buffer overflows in WindowMaker 0.52 through 0.60.0 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by executing WindowMaker with a long program name (ar…
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.
Denial of service in BSDi Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) when an fstat call is made when the system has a high CPU load.
A default configuration of in.identd in SuSE Linux waits 120 seconds between requests, allowing a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service.
3Com HiPer Access Router Card (HiperARC) 4.0 through 4.2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a flood of IAC packets to the telnet port.
Denial of service in AIX ptrace system call allows local users to crash the system.
Denial of service in IIS 4.0 via a flood of HTTP requests with malformed headers.
Check Point FireWall-1 can be subjected to a denial of service via UDP packets that are sent through VPN-1 to port 0 of a host.
Windows NT Terminal Server performs extra work when a client opens a new connection but before it is authenticated, allowing for a denial of service.
Denial of service in Gauntlet Firewall via a malformed ICMP packet.
Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresp…
Denial of service in Windows NT messenger service through a long username.
Denial of service in Samba NETBIOS name service daemon (nmbd).
Denial of service in Windows NT Local Security Authority (LSA) through a malformed LSA request.
Buffer overflow in AspUpload.dll in Persits Software AspUpload before 1.4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument in the…
Operating systems with shared memory implementations based on BSD 4.4 code allow a user to conduct a denial of service and bypass memory limits (e.g., as specified with rlimits) using mmap or shmget…
IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the…
Denial of service in Netscape Enterprise Server via a buffer overflow in the SSL handshake.
The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.
Denial of service in various Windows systems via malformed, fragmented IGMP packets.
Denial of service in RAS/PPTP on NT systems.
An attacker can conduct a denial of service in Windows NT by executing a program with a malformed file image header.
Linuxconf on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and earlier does not properly disable PAM-based access to the shutdown command, which could allow local users to cause a denial of service.
Microsoft Outlook client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending multiple email messages with the same X-UIDL headers, which causes Outlook to hang.
The Windows NT Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS) can be subjected to a denial of service when all worker threads are waiting for user input.
Buffer overflow in IIS 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request for files with .HTR, .IDC, or .STM extensions.
Novell NetWare with Novell-HTTP-Server or YAWN web servers allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of HTTP GET requests.
The OmniHTTPD visadmin.exe program allows a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service via a malformed URL which causes a large number of temporary files to be created.
A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which ge…
Denial of service in Compaq Management Agents and the Compaq Survey Utility via a long string sent to port 2301.
Denial of service in Linux 2.2.x kernels via malformed ICMP packets containing unusual types, codes, and IP header lengths.
Buffer overflow in KDE Kmail allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an attachment with a long file name.
nsd in IRIX 6.5 through 6.5.2 exports a virtual filesystem on a UDP port, which allows remote attackers to view files and cause a possible denial of service by mounting the nsd virtual file system.
tcpdump, Ethereal, and other sniffer packages allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed DNS packets in which a jump offset refers to itself, which causes tcpdump to enter an i…
Symantec pcAnywhere 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU utilization) via a large amount of data to port 5631.
Buffer overflow in SmartDesk WebSuite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.
Buffer overflow in Remote Access Service (RAS) client allows an attacker to execute commands or cause a denial of service via a malformed phonebook entry.
counter.exe 2.70 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) via an HTTP request that ends in %0A (newline), which causes a malformed entry in the counter log that produces an access…
counter.exe 2.70 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) via a long argument.