CVE-1999-0015 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability, commonly referred to as the "Teardrop" attack, which impacts legacy TCP/IP stack implementations in operating systems from HP, Microsoft, NetBSD, and Sun. Rated as Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.0, this network-based vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to disrupt system availability through low-complexity methods involving malformed IP fragments. While historical proof-of-concept code is available on ExploitDB targeting older platforms like Windows NT and HP-UX, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or significant community discussion regarding this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.03CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.05CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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