Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1066

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:02:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Quake 1 server responds to an initial UDP game connection request with a large amount of traffic, which allows remote attackers to use the server as an amplifier in a "Smurf" style attack on another host, by spoofing the connection request.