CVE-1999-0116

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood

published September 29, 1999

CVSS
—
EPSS
6%
Percentile
92.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05621 · 92.9th percentile
Published
1999-09-29T04:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 SEP 04:00Z
    Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood
    cvelistv5