CVE-1999-1285

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1998-12-27 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1285, 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

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1285

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