Denial of Service Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.5 inetd

CVE-1999-1075 · MEDIUM Severity

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

inetd in AIX 4.1.5 dynamically assigns a port N when starting ttdbserver (ToolTalk server), but also inadvertently listens on port N-1 without passing control to ttdbserver, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of connections to port N-1, which are not properly closed by inetd.

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