National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0103
Orirignal release date: 1996-02-08
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Echo and chargen, or other combinations of UDP services, can be used in tandem to flood the server, a.k.a. UDP bomb or UDP packet storm.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input
    Impact Type: avail

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0103