CVE-1999-0116 Information

Description

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection aka SYN flood.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19961202-01-PX http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136