2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0770

Published: 29/07/1999 Updated: 09/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 215
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an malicious user to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresponsive systems.

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checkpoint firewall-1 4.0

checkpoint firewall-1 3.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/549/info A denial of service condition exists in some implementations of Firewall-1 by Checkpoint Software This denial of service attack is possible due to the way Firewall-1 handles TCP connections Typically to initiate a TCP connection, a SYN packet is sent to the destination host On systems where Fir ...