CVE-1999-0999 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0999?

CVE-1999-0999 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Sql Server, published on 18 Jan 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft SQL 7.0 server allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed TDS packet.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0999?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Sql Server.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0999?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0999 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-1999-0999 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-0999 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cj38-2rjc-pv2v.