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CVE-1999-0797

CVE information

Published

25 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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Description

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.6/10
Exploit Score
4.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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