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CVE-1999-1449

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-1449 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting SunOS 4.1.4 on Sparc 20 machines, where local users can trigger a kernel panic by reading from the /dev/tcx0 device. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (LOW), this vulnerability has a local attack vector, low attack complexity, and results in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor any community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 4th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

oamk.fi / ~jukkao/bugtraq/before-971202/0498.html
Vendor Advisory
insecure.org / sploits/sunos.dev.tcx0.write.wierd.shit.to.device.bug.html
Vendor Advisory