CVE-1999-0986 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0986?

CVE-1999-0986 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Jan 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ping command in Linux 2.0.3x allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending large packets with the -R (record route) option.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0986?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0986?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0986 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-1999-0986 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-0986 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9mjp-wq93-cgg3.