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It was reviewed and accepted by the <a href="/web/20070410132932/http://cve.mitre.org/board/">CVE Editorial Board</a> before it was added to CVE. <p> <table border="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">Name</font></td> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">CVE-1999-0116</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">Status</font></td> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">Entry</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">Description</font></td> <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva">Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood. </font></td> </tr> </table> <p> <font size="+1"><b>References</b></font><p> <ul> <li>CERT:CA-96.21.tcp_syn.flooding <li>SGI:19961202-01-PX <li>URL:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19961202-01-PX <li>SUN:00136 <li>URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136 </ul> <p> <i>Note: <a href="/web/20070410132932/http://cve.mitre.org/cve/refs/refkey.html">References</a> are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between CVE entries. The list of references is not intended to be complete.</i> <p> <i>Entry created on 19990925.</i> <hr> <form method="GET" action="/web/20070410132932/http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi"> <b>Search CVE using keywords:</b> <input name="keyword" type="text" maxlength="30" size="30"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </form> <p> You can also search by reference using <a href="/web/20070410132932/http://cve.mitre.org/cve/refs/refmap/index.html"> reference maps</a>. <hr> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070410132932/http://cve.mitre.org/" target="_top">Home to cve.mitre.org</a> <p> <p> For more information, please contact <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070410132932/mailto:cve@mitre.org">cve@mitre.org</a>. </font> </td> </tr> </table> </html>