CVE-1999-0195 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0195?

CVE-1999-0195 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Feb 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Denial of service in RPC portmapper allows attackers to register or unregister RPC services or spoof RPC services using a spoofed source IP address such as 127.0.0.1.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0195?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Sgi Irix.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0195?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0195 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-1999-0195 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-0195 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wc76-ph8f-8495.