CVE-1999-0837 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in BIND, affecting various ISC and Sun BIND/Solaris/SunOS products, caused by improper TCP session closure using so_linger. This critical vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a network-exploitable attack with low complexity, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:7.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.