SYN Flood Vulnerability: Overwhelming Connections with Unacknowledged SYN Packets

CVE-1999-0116 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.

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