CVE-1999-0513 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability, known as a Smurf attack, where ICMP messages sent to broadcast addresses can overwhelm affected systems including various versions of Digital UNIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, leading to a partial denial of service. While not on the CISA KEV catalog and showing no recent community discussion or media coverage, exploit code for this legacy issue is publicly available, indicating its historical exploitability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.2gCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:3.2g:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:4.0a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:4.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0cCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:4.0c:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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