2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-1999-1408

Published: 05/03/1997 Updated: 18/10/2016
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

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.

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hp hp-ux 10.20

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/352/info Certain versions of AIX and HP/UX contained a bug in the way the OS handled the connect system call The connect call is used to initiate a connection on a socket Because of the flaw in the handling code under AIX certain versions will reboot when given two connects, one to a fixed port (a number ...