CVE-1999-0273

CVE-1999-0273 affects the Solaris 2.5.1 telnet service. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service by sending repeated ^D characters, crashing the telnet daemon and disrupting network access. The SunKill/Nessus entries corroborate that the issue is a remote DoS via the telnet service when ^D...

Solaris ^D Character Remote Telnet Service DoS

It was possible to make the remote Sun crash by flooding it with ^D characters instead of entering our login. This flaw allows an attacker to prevent your network from working properly. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. "SunKill" include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...