CVE-1999-1331 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1331?

CVE-1999-1331 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

netcfg 2.16-1 in Red Hat Linux 4.2 allows the Ethernet interface to be controlled by users on reboot when an option is set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by shutting down the interface.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1331?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1331?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1331 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-1999-1331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1331 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Linux

• CVE-2000-1220 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0248 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1542 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1299 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2000-0322 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0

All Redhat Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qcqp-mmmc-3pj9.