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
1999-05-17
Medium

CVE-1999-1156

BisonWare FTP Server 4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed PORT command that contains a non-numeric character and a large number of carriage returns.

High

CVE-1999-1510

Buffer overflows in Bisonware FTP server prior to 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via long (1) USER, (2) LIST, or (3) CWD commands.

1999-05-12
Medium

CVE-1999-0229

Denial of service in Windows NT IIS server using ..\..

1999-05-08
Medium

CVE-1999-1566

Buffer overflow in iParty server 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by connecting to default port 6004 and sending repeated extended characters.

1999-05-07
Medium

CVE-1999-0686

Denial of service in Netscape Enterprise Server (NES) in HP Virtual Vault (VVOS) via a long URL.

1999-05-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0194

Denial of service in in.comsat allows attackers to generate messages.

1999-04-19
Medium

CVE-1999-0684

Denial of service in Sendmail 8.8.6 in HPUX.

1999-04-12
Medium

CVE-1999-0444

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service in Windows machines using malicious ARP packets, forcing a message box display for each packet or filling up log files.

Low

CVE-1999-0446

Local users can perform a denial of service in NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier versions by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, triggering a bug in VFS.

1999-04-07
Medium

CVE-1999-1196

Hummingbird Exceed X version 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed data to port 6000.

1999-04-01
Low

CVE-1999-0480

Local attackers can conduct a denial of service in Midnight Commander 4.x with a symlink attack.

Medium

CVE-1999-0921

BMC Patrol allows any remote attacker to flood its UDP port, causing a denial of service.

1999-03-30
High

CVE-1999-0434

XFree86 xfs command is vulnerable to a symlink attack, allowing local users to create files in restricted directories, possibly allowing them to gain privileges or cause a denial of service.

1999-03-22
Medium

CVE-1999-0481

Denial of service in "poll" in OpenBSD.

1999-03-21
Medium

CVE-1999-0433

XFree86 startx command is vulnerable to a symlink attack, allowing local users to create files in restricted directories, possibly allowing them to gain privileges or cause a denial of service.

1999-03-09
Low

CVE-1999-0417

64 bit Solaris 7 procfs allows local users to perform a denial of service.

1999-03-08
Medium

CVE-1999-0418

Denial of service in SMTP applications such as Sendmail, when a remote attacker (e.g. spammer) uses many "RCPT TO" commands in the same connection.

Medium

CVE-1999-1254

Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by spoofing ICMP redirect messages from a router, which causes Windows to change its routing tables.

Medium

CVE-1999-1567

Seapine Software TestTrack server allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (high CPU) via (1) TestTrackWeb.exe and (2) ttcgi.exe by connecting to port 99 and disconnecting without sendin…

1999-03-02
Medium

CVE-1999-1551

Buffer overflow in Ipswitch IMail Service 5.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long URL.

1999-03-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0221

Denial of service of Ascend routers through port 150 (remote administration).

Medium

CVE-1999-0222

Denial of service in Cisco IOS web server allows attackers to reboot the router using a long URL.

Medium

CVE-1999-0419

When the Microsoft SMTP service attempts to send a message to a server and receives a 4xx error code, it quickly and repeatedly attempts to redeliver the message, causing a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-0430

Cisco Catalyst LAN switches running Catalyst 5000 supervisor software allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service by forcing the supervisor module to reload.

Medium

CVE-1999-0431

Linux 2.2.3 and earlier allow a remote attacker to perform an IP fragmentation attack, causing a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-0437

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service in WebRamp systems by sending a malicious string to the HTTP port.

Medium

CVE-1999-0438

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service in WebRamp systems by sending a malicious UDP packet to port 5353, changing its IP address.

Medium

CVE-1999-0479

Denial of service Netscape Enterprise Server with VirtualVault on HP-UX VVOS systems.

Critical

CVE-1999-1046

Buffer overflow in IMonitor in IMail 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long string to port 8181.

1999-02-22
Medium

CVE-1999-0377

Process table attack in Unix systems allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service by filling a machine's process tables through multiple connections to network services.

Medium

CVE-1999-0441

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service in WinGate machines using a buffer overflow in the Winsock Redirector Service.

1999-02-19
Low

CVE-1999-0460

Buffer overflow in Linux autofs module through long directory names allows local users to perform a denial of service.

1999-02-17
Low

CVE-1999-0396

A race condition between the select() and accept() calls in NetBSD TCP servers allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-1060

Buffer overflow in Tetrix TetriNet daemon 1.13.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by connecting to port 31457 from a host with a long DNS…

1999-02-12
Medium

CVE-1999-1203

Multilink PPP for ISDN dialup users in Ascend before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a spoofed endpoint identifier.

1999-02-06
Medium

CVE-1999-1201

Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, when configured with multiple TCP/IP stacks bound to the same MAC address, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a certain…

1999-02-04
Medium

CVE-1999-1169

nobo 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a series of large UDP packets.

1999-02-02
Medium

CVE-1999-0362

WS_FTP server remote denial of service through cwd command.

1999-02-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0351

FTP PASV "Pizza Thief" denial of service and unauthorized data access. Attackers can steal data by connecting to a port that was intended for use by a client.

Medium

CVE-1999-0403

A bug in Cyrix CPUs on Linux allows local users to perform a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-0459

Local users can perform a denial of service in Alpha Linux, using MILO to force a reboot.

1999-01-27
High

CVE-1999-0349

A buffer overflow in the FTP list (ls) command in IIS allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service and, in some cases, execute arbitrary commands.

1999-01-26
Medium

CVE-1999-0400

Denial of service in Linux 2.2.0 running the ldd command on a core file.

High

CVE-1999-0449

The ExAir sample site in IIS 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a direct request to the (1) advsearch.asp, (2) query.asp, or (3) search.asp scripts.

1999-01-25
Medium

CVE-1999-0357

Windows 98 and other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted "oshare" packets, possibly involving invalid fragmentation offsets.

1999-01-24
Medium

CVE-1999-1544

Buffer overflow in FTP server in Microsoft IIS 3.0 and 4.0 allows local and sometimes remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long NLST (ls) command.

1999-01-19
Low

CVE-1999-0451

Denial of service in Linux 2.0.36 allows local users to prevent any server from listening on any non-privileged port.

1999-01-04
Low

CVE-1999-0464

Local users can perform a denial of service in Tripwire 1.2 and earlier using long filenames.

1999-01-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0205

Denial of service in Sendmail 8.6.11 and 8.6.12.

Critical

CVE-1999-0220

Attackers can do a denial of service of IRC by crashing the server.

Critical

CVE-1999-0226

Windows NT TCP/IP processes fragmented IP packets improperly, causing a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-0231

Buffer overflow in IP-Switch IMail and Seattle Labs Slmail 2.6 packages using a long VRFY command, causing a denial of service and possibly remote access.

Critical

CVE-1999-0285

Denial of service in telnet from the Windows NT Resource Kit, by opening then immediately closing a connection.

Medium

CVE-1999-0355

Local or remote users can force ControlIT 4.5 to reboot or force a user to log out, resulting in a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-1999-0393

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Sendmail 8.8.x and 8.9.2 by sending messages with a large number of headers.

Critical

CVE-1999-0698

Denial of service in IP protocol logger (ippl) on Red Hat and Debian Linux.

High

CVE-1999-1568

Off-by-one error in NcFTPd FTP server before 2.4.1 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long PORT command.

1998-12-27
Low

CVE-1999-1285

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until t…

1998-12-17
High

CVE-1999-0188

The passwd command in Solaris can be subjected to a denial of service.

1998-12-01
High

CVE-1999-0332

Buffer overflow in NetMeeting allows denial of service and remote command execution.

Critical

CVE-1999-0385

The LDAP bind function in Exchange 5.5 has a buffer overflow that allows a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service or execute commands.

Medium

CVE-1999-0463

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service using IRIX fcagent.

Medium

CVE-1999-0478

Denial of service in HP-UX sendmail 8.8.6 related to accepting connections.

1998-11-05
Medium

CVE-1999-1284

NukeNabber allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the NukeNabber port (1080) without sending any data, which causes the CPU usage to rise to 100% from the report.exe pr…

High

CVE-1999-1321

Buffer overflow in ssh 1.2.26 client with Kerberos V enabled could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long DNS hostname that is not properly handl…

1998-11-04
High

CVE-1999-0052

IP fragmentation denial of service in FreeBSD allows a remote attacker to cause a crash.

1998-10-13
Medium

CVE-1999-0053

TCP RST denial of service in FreeBSD.

1998-10-02
Medium

CVE-1999-1404

IBM/Tivoli OPC Tracker Agent version 2 release 1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via malformed data to the localtracker client port (5011), which prevents t…

1998-09-29
Medium

CVE-1999-0969

The Windows NT RPC service allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service using spoofed malformed RPC packets which generate an error message that is sent to the spoofed host, potentially set…

1998-09-22
Medium

CVE-1999-1265

SMTP server in SLmail 3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed commands whose arguments begin with a "(" (parenthesis) character, such as (1) SEND, (2) VRFY,…

1998-09-03
Medium

CVE-1999-0779

Denial of service in HP-UX SharedX recserv program.

1998-08-23
Medium

CVE-1999-1416

AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an HTTP POST request with a large content-length.

High

CVE-1999-1417

Format string vulnerability in AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via encoded % characters in an H…

1998-08-18
Medium

CVE-1999-0157

Cisco PIX firewall and CBAC IP fragmentation attack results in a denial of service.

1998-08-14
Medium

CVE-1999-1283

Opera 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URL that contains an extra / in the http:// tag.

1998-08-07
Critical

CVE-1999-1199

Apache WWW server 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of MIME headers with the same name, aka the "sioux" vulnerability.

1998-08-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0288

The WINS server in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 before SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process termination) via invalid UDP frames to port 137 (NETBIOS Name Service), as demonst…

1998-07-29
Low

CVE-1999-1406

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

1998-07-28
Medium

CVE-1999-1447

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via HTML code that contains a long CLASSID parameter in an OBJECT tag.

1998-07-25
Medium

CVE-1999-1070

Buffer overflow in ping CGI program in Xylogics Annex terminal service allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long query parameter.

1998-07-20
Medium

CVE-1999-1200

Vintra SMTP MailServer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed "EXPN *@" command.

Medium

CVE-1999-1421

NBase switches NH208 and NH215 run a TFTP server which allows remote attackers to send software updates to modify the switch or cause a denial of service (crash) by guessing the target filenames, whi…

1998-07-16
Medium

CVE-1999-1149

Buffer overflow in CSM Proxy 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string to the FTP port.

1998-07-15
Critical

CVE-1999-0213

libnsl in Solaris allowed an attacker to perform a denial of service of rpcbind.

1998-07-03
Medium

CVE-1999-1202

StarTech (1) POP3 proxy server and (2) telnet server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command.

1998-07-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0494

Denial of service in WinGate proxy through a buffer overflow in POP3.

1998-06-30
Low

CVE-1999-1441

Linux 2.0.34 does not properly prevent users from sending SIGIO signals to arbitrary processes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending SIGIO to processes that do not catch i…

1998-06-29
Low

CVE-1999-0797

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.

1998-06-22
High

CVE-1999-1442

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses out…

1998-06-16
Medium

CVE-1999-0783

FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.

1998-06-10
Medium

CVE-1999-0054

Sun's ftpd daemon can be subjected to a denial of service.

1998-06-03
Medium

CVE-1999-1151

Compaq/Microcom 6000 Access Integrator does not cause a session timeout after prompting for a username or password, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the int…

1998-05-10
Critical

CVE-1999-0919

A memory leak in a Motorola CableRouter allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a large number of telnet connections.

1998-05-09
Medium

CVE-1999-1361

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 running WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed packets, which causes the serv…

1998-04-14
Medium

CVE-1999-1113

Buffer overflow in Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS) 2.01 and earlier on MacOS systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command to port 106.

1998-04-08
Medium

CVE-1999-0011

Denial of Service vulnerabilities in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases via CNAME record and zone transfer.

Medium

CVE-1999-0010

Denial of Service vulnerability in BIND 8 Releases via maliciously formatted DNS messages.

Medium

CVE-1999-1015

Buffer overflow in Apple AppleShare Mail Server 5.0.3 on MacOS 8.1 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HELO command.

Medium

CVE-1999-1503

Network Flight Recorder (NFR) 1.5 and 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in nfrd (crash) via a TCP packet with a null header and data field.

Medium

CVE-1999-1504

Stalker Internet Mail Server 1.6 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HELO command.

1998-04-07
High

CVE-1999-1505

Buffer overflow in QuakeWorld 2.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long initial connect packet.

1998-04-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0257

Nestea variation of teardrop IP fragmentation denial of service.

1998-03-18
Medium

CVE-1999-1075

inetd in AIX 4.1.5 dynamically assigns a port N when starting ttdbserver (ToolTalk server), but also inadvertently listens on port N-1 without passing control to ttdbserver, which allows remote attac…

1998-03-16
Medium

CVE-1999-0060

Attackers can cause a denial of service in Ascend MAX and Pipeline routers with a malformed packet to the discard port, which is used by the Java Configurator tool.

1998-03-11
Low

CVE-1999-1118

ndd in Solaris 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service by modifying certain TCP/IP parameters.

1998-03-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0514

UDP messages to broadcast addresses are allowed, allowing for a Fraggle attack that can cause a denial of service by flooding the target.

1998-02-21
Medium

CVE-1999-0290

The WinGate telnet proxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of connections to localhost.

1998-02-18
High

CVE-1999-1207

Buffer overflow in web-admin tool in NetXRay 2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long HTTP request.

1998-02-14
Medium

CVE-1999-0225

Windows NT 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed SMB logon request in which the actual data size does not match the specified size.

1998-02-13
Medium

CVE-1999-0258

Bonk variation of teardrop IP fragmentation denial of service.

1998-02-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0087

Denial of service in AIX telnet can freeze a system and prevent users from accessing the server.

Medium

CVE-1999-0486

Denial of service in AOL Instant Messenger when a remote attacker sends a malicious hyperlink to the receiving client, potentially causing a system crash.

1998-01-21
High

CVE-1999-0014

Unauthorized privileged access or denial of service via dtappgather program in CDE.

1998-01-15
High

CVE-1999-1045

pnserver in RealServer 5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a short, malformed request.

1998-01-05
Medium

CVE-1999-0513

ICMP messages to broadcast addresses are allowed, allowing for a Smurf attack that can cause a denial of service.

1998-01-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0273

Denial of service through Solaris 2.5.1 telnet by sending ^D characters.

High

CVE-1999-0284

Denial of service to NT mail servers including Ipswitch, Mdaemon, and Exchange through a buffer overflow in the SMTP HELO command.

1997-12-30
Medium

CVE-1999-0107

Buffer overflow in Apache 1.2.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with a large number of GET requests containing a large number of / characters.

1997-12-24
Medium

CVE-1999-1230

Quake 2 server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a spoofed UDP packet with a source address of 127.0.0.1, which causes the server to attempt to connect to itself.

1997-12-23
Medium

CVE-1999-1581

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a larg…