CVE-1999-0746: Slackware Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A default configuration of in.identd in SuSE Linux waits 120 seconds between requests, allowing a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service.

Affected products

• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.2 only; version 3.6 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 4.4 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; …

Published 1999-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.