CVE-1999-1230

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1997-12-24 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1230, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Quake 2 server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a spoofed UDP packet with a source address of 127.0.0.1, which causes the server to attempt to connect to itself.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1230

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