CVE-1999-1445 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in imapd and ipop3d services within Slackware Linux versions 3.3 and 3.4 when shadowing is enabled, potentially affecting other operating systems. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a core dump by sending a specific, short sequence of invalid USER and PASS commands. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), the attack requires no authentication and has low complexity, but its impact is limited to availability (denial of service). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this legacy CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.