CVE-1999-0770

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...

CVE-1999-0770

CVE-1999-0770 affects Firewall-1, where a long timeout on connections that start with ACK/non-SYN packets enables a denial of service by mass connection attempts to unresponsive systems. Red Hat and CVE records corroborate the symptom; Nessus describes a remote DoS attack via the ACK/stream attac...

CVE-1999-0770

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...