Vulnerability in Checkpoint Firewall-1
CVE-1999-0770
Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresponsive systems.
EPSS: 0.011 (61.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Checkpoint Firewall-1 — versions 3.0, 4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)