CVE-1999-0223

Low

Published: 01/03/1999(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.32%

23th percentile — higher than 23% of all known CVEs

The syslogd service in Solaris crashes when receiving a message from a host that does not have an inverse DNS entry.

Crashes of syslogd may lead to loss of system logs, complicating monitoring and troubleshooting efforts.

It is recommended to configure inverse DNS entries for all hosts that may send messages to syslogd.

Original NVD description (English source)

Solaris syslogd crashes when receiving a message from a host that doesn't have an inverse DNS entry.