CVE-1999-0513 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0513?

CVE-1999-0513 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 29 Sep 1999. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ICMP messages to broadcast addresses are allowed, allowing for a Smurf attack that can cause a denial of service.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0513?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Digital Unix, Freebsd Freebsd, Hp Hp-Ux, Ibm Aix, Linux kernel, Netbsd Netbsd and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0513?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0513 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-1999-0513 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-0513 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd

• CVE-1999-1210 Path traversal in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-1999-1458 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2001-0369 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-1999-0358 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-1999-0406 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.2

All Freebsd Freebsd vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q2cm-72c7-798h.