CVE-1999-1423 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-1999-1423

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to...

Vulnerability Description

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ping request to a multicast address through the loopback interface, e.g. via ping -i.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

solaris, sunos
Vulnerable Versions:
2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

Timeline

Official Publish: March 9th, 2002
Last Modified: August 1st, 2024
Added to House: July 17th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.