CVE-1999-0290

Summary

CVE-1999-0290 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the WinGate telnet proxy. An attacker can cause service disruption by establishing a large number of connections to localhost on the targeted system. This may result in excessive resource usage and eventual system crash, rendering the service unavailable to legitimate users.

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