CVE-1999-1569 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01317.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Id Software	Quake

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925989&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91012172524181&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197268
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3051
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6871

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.603Z

Reserved: 2002-01-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1569

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2001-07-17T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1569

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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