About “Denial of Service (DoS)”

A curated feed of “Denial of Service (DoS)”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 39647 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 3219 were published. Average CVSS is 6.6 (all time; 6.6 over 365d), and 47% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
1999-12-31
High

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-0815

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1035

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1043

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).

High

CVE-1999-1127

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1132

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1148

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1157

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1222

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1223

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1290

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.

Critical

CVE-1999-1293

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-1315

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.

Low

CVE-1999-1331

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1339

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…

Low

CVE-1999-1360

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…

Low

CVE-1999-1362

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.

Low

CVE-1999-1363

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.

Low

CVE-1999-1364

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.

Low

CVE-1999-1476

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…

1999-12-30
Medium

CVE-1999-0001

ip_input.c in BSD-derived TCP/IP implementations allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via crafted packets.

1999-12-29
Medium

CVE-2000-0007

Trend Micro PC-Cillin does not restrict access to its internal proxy port, allowing remote attackers to conduct a denial of service.

Critical

CVE-2000-0042

Buffer overflow in CSM mail server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute commands via a long HELO command.

1999-12-28
Medium

CVE-2000-0014

Denial of service in Savant web server via a null character in the requested URL.

1999-12-27
Medium

CVE-2000-0060

Buffer overflow in aVirt Rover POP3 server 1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long user name.

1999-12-23
Medium

CVE-2000-0001

RealMedia server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long ramgen request.

1999-12-22
Medium

CVE-1999-1109

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…

1999-12-21
Medium

CVE-2000-0023

Buffer overflow in Lotus Domino HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.

1999-12-20
Medium

CVE-2000-0020

DNS PRO allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connections.

1999-12-16
High

CVE-1999-0995

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…

1999-12-13
Medium

CVE-1999-1003

War FTP Daemon 1.70 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding it with connections.

1999-12-08
Medium

CVE-1999-0986

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.

1999-12-07
Low

CVE-1999-0976

Sendmail allows local users to reinitialize the aliases database via the newaliases command, then cause a denial of service by interrupting Sendmail.

1999-12-06
Medium

CVE-1999-0991

Buffer overflow in GoodTech Telnet Server NT allows remote users to cause a denial of service via a long login name.

1999-12-03
Low

CVE-2000-0139

Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server allows local users to cause a denial of service via a malformed RETR command.

1999-12-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0838

Buffer overflow in Serv-U FTP 2.5 allows remote users to conduct a denial of service via the SITE command.

Medium

CVE-1999-0846

Denial of service in MDaemon 2.7 via a large number of connection attempts.

1999-11-24
Medium

CVE-1999-0844

Denial of service in MDaemon WorldClient and WebConfig services via a long URL.

High

CVE-1999-1189

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1548

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.

1999-11-23
Low

CVE-2000-0531

Linux gpm program allows local users to cause a denial of service by flooding the /dev/gpmctl device with STREAM sockets.

1999-11-22
High

CVE-1999-1058

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.

1999-11-19
Medium

CVE-1999-0831

Denial of service in Linux syslogd via a large number of connections.

Medium

CVE-1999-0999

Microsoft SQL 7.0 server allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed TDS packet.

1999-11-17
Medium

CVE-1999-1519

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.

Medium

CVE-2000-0073

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.

1999-11-10
Critical

CVE-1999-0835

Denial of service in BIND named via malformed SIG records.

Critical

CVE-1999-0837

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

Medium

CVE-1999-0848

Denial of service in BIND named via consuming more than "fdmax" file descriptors.

Medium

CVE-1999-0849

Denial of service in BIND named via maxdname.

Low

CVE-1999-0851

Denial of service in BIND named via naptr.

High

CVE-1999-1511

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…

High

CVE-1999-1539

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…

1999-11-07
High

CVE-1999-1533

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.

1999-11-04
Medium

CVE-1999-0843

Denial of service in Cisco routers running NAT via a PORT command from an FTP client to a Telnet port.

High

CVE-1999-0898

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.

High

CVE-1999-1065

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…

1999-11-03
Medium

CVE-1999-0904

Buffer overflow in BFTelnet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long username.

1999-10-29
Medium

CVE-1999-1532

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.

1999-10-28
Low

CVE-1999-1226

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.

1999-10-26
Medium

CVE-1999-1234

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.

1999-10-21
Medium

CVE-1999-0905

Denial of service in Axent Raptor firewall via malformed zero-length IP options.

1999-10-17
Medium

CVE-1999-1342

ICQ ActiveList Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed packets to the server's UDP port.

1999-10-13
Medium

CVE-1999-1343

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.

1999-10-08
Medium

CVE-2000-0369

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.

1999-10-06
Medium

CVE-1999-1349

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.

1999-10-04
High

CVE-1999-1523

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.

1999-10-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0880

Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.

Medium

CVE-1999-1500

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.

Medium

CVE-2000-0016

Buffer overflow in Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute commands via a long username.

Medium

CVE-2000-0047

Buffer overflow in Yahoo Pager/Messenger client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL within a message.

1999-09-26
Medium

CVE-1999-0788

Arkiea nlservd allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service.

1999-09-23
Medium

CVE-1999-0908

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.

1999-09-22
Low

CVE-1999-0912

FreeBSD VFS cache (vfs_cache) allows local users to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of files.

1999-09-05
Low

CVE-2000-0489

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…

1999-09-03
Medium

CVE-1999-0925

UnityMail allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of MIME headers.

Critical

CVE-1999-0926

Apache allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of MIME headers.

1999-09-02
Low

CVE-1999-1564

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.

1999-08-31
Medium

CVE-1999-1515

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…

1999-08-27
Medium

CVE-1999-1016

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…

1999-08-26
Medium

CVE-1999-0939

Denial of service in Debian IRC Epic/epic4 client via a long string.

1999-08-22
Critical

CVE-1999-1064

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…

1999-08-19
Medium

CVE-1999-0740

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.

1999-08-18
Low

CVE-1999-0747

Denial of service in BSDi Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) when an fstat call is made when the system has a high CPU load.

1999-08-16
Medium

CVE-1999-0746

A default configuration of in.identd in SuSE Linux waits 120 seconds between requests, allowing a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service.

1999-08-12
Medium

CVE-1999-1336

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.

1999-08-11
Low

CVE-1999-0694

Denial of service in AIX ptrace system call allows local users to crash the system.

Medium

CVE-1999-0867

Denial of service in IIS 4.0 via a flood of HTTP requests with malformed headers.

1999-08-09
Medium

CVE-1999-0675

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-0680

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.

1999-07-30
Medium

CVE-1999-0683

Denial of service in Gauntlet Firewall via a malformed ICMP packet.

1999-07-29
Low

CVE-1999-0770

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…

1999-07-23
Medium

CVE-1999-0224

Denial of service in Windows NT messenger service through a long username.

1999-07-21
Critical

CVE-1999-0810

Denial of service in Samba NETBIOS name service daemon (nmbd).

1999-07-20
High

CVE-1999-0721

Denial of service in Windows NT Local Security Authority (LSA) through a malformed LSA request.

Critical

CVE-1999-1535

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…

1999-07-15
Medium

CVE-1999-1518

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…

1999-07-07
Medium

CVE-1999-1537

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…

1999-07-06
Medium

CVE-1999-0752

Denial of service in Netscape Enterprise Server via a buffer overflow in the SSL handshake.

Medium

CVE-1999-1478

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.

1999-07-03
High

CVE-1999-0918

Denial of service in various Windows systems via malformed, fragmented IGMP packets.

1999-06-30
Medium

CVE-1999-0140

Denial of service in RAS/PPTP on NT systems.

High

CVE-1999-0726

An attacker can conduct a denial of service in Windows NT by executing a program with a malformed file image header.

Low

CVE-1999-1348

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.

1999-06-25
Medium

CVE-1999-1164

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.

1999-06-23
High

CVE-1999-0723

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.

1999-06-16
Critical

CVE-1999-0874

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.

Medium

CVE-1999-0929

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.

1999-06-05
Medium

CVE-1999-0970

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.

1999-06-03
Medium

CVE-1999-1412

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…

1999-06-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0772

Denial of service in Compaq Management Agents and the Compaq Survey Utility via a long string sent to port 2301.

Medium

CVE-1999-0804

Denial of service in Linux 2.2.x kernels via malformed ICMP packets containing unusual types, codes, and IP header lengths.

Medium

CVE-2000-0481

Buffer overflow in KDE Kmail allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an attachment with a long file name.

1999-05-31
Medium

CVE-1999-1485

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.

Medium

CVE-2000-0333

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…

1999-05-28
Medium

CVE-1999-1028

Symantec pcAnywhere 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU utilization) via a large amount of data to port 5631.

1999-05-23
Medium

CVE-1999-0928

Buffer overflow in SmartDesk WebSuite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.

1999-05-20
Medium

CVE-1999-0715

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.

1999-05-19
Medium

CVE-1999-1030

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…

Medium

CVE-1999-1031

counter.exe 2.70 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (hang) via a long argument.