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CVE-1999-1449

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1997-05-19 ยท last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1449, 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

SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20 machine allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading from the /dev/tcx0 TCX device.

Sources

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