Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-0377

Title: Process table exhaustion via multiple connections to network services

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-0377.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Feb 22, 1999

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-0377: Process table attack in Unix systems allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service by filling a machine's process tables through multiple connections to network services.

Impacted Vendors

digital 1

unix 1

sco 1

Reference Links

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033881 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033881

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-0377 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 22, 1999 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.