Local Denial of Service Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05

Local Denial of Service Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05

CVE-1999-1408 · LOW Severity

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

Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by using a socket to connect to a port on the localhost, calling shutdown to clear the socket, then using the same socket to connect to a different port on localhost.

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