CVE-1999-0848

Medium

Published: 10/11/1999(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk

6.39%

93th percentile - higher than 93% of all known CVEs

A vulnerability in BIND named allows a denial of service attack by consuming more than 'fdmax' file descriptors.

An attacker can cause the DNS service to become unavailable, potentially disrupting applications and systems that rely on DNS.

It is recommended to monitor and limit the number of file descriptors used by BIND to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

Denial of service in BIND named via consuming more than "fdmax" file descriptors.