CVE-1999-0273 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Solaris 2.5.1, where an attacker could crash the telnet service by sending multiple Control-D characters. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this legacy CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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