CVE-1999-1028

Summary

CVE-1999-1028 identifies a denial-of-service vulnerability in Symantec pcAnywhere 8.0. An attacker can overload the system's CPU by sending an excessive amount of data to port 5631, causing the software to become unresponsive and impacting the overall performance of the affected machine. This issue may lead to a significant disruption of services and requires immediate attention from system administrators to mitigate the risk by updating to a patched version of pcAnywhere.

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