CVE-1999-0831: Cobalt Qube

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Denial of service in Linux syslogd via a large number of connections.

Affected products

• Cobalt Qube: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.2 only
• Sun Cobalt Raq: version 1.1 only
• Sun Cobalt Raq 2: any version
• Sun Cobalt Raq 3i: any version
• Suse Suse Linux: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only

Published 1999-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.