CVE-1999-1423: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ping request to a multicast address through the loopback interface, e.g. via ping -i.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 1997-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.