CVE-1999-1408: HP HP-Ux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by using a socket to connect to a port on the localhost, calling shutdown to clear the socket, then using the same socket to connect to a different port on localhost.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 9.05 only; version 10.01 only; version 10.20 only
• IBM Aix: version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only

Published 1997-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.