CVE-1999-0216

Summary

CVE-1999-0216 is a vulnerability affecting the inetd daemon on Linux systems. A denial of service attack can be executed by sending malformed SYN or RST packets to the service, causing inetd to consume excessive resources and become unresponsive. This can lead to a denial of service condition, making the affected system unavailable to legitimate users. The vulnerability was discovered in 1999 and can potentially impact any Linux distribution that uses the inetd daemon. It is recommended that affected systems be updated to a version of inetd that includes the necessary patch to mitigate this issue.

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