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Unscored Public exploit CVE-1999-0770 EUVD-1999-0751GHSA-cmfr-w36g-hm8h

Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of…

Published Jan 18, 2000 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresponsive systems.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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