CVE-1999-0216: GNU Inet

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Denial of service of inetd on Linux through SYN and RST packets.

Affected products

• GNU Inet: version 5.01 only
• HP HP-Ux: version 10 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.20.1 only

Published 1997-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.