Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > December 27, 1999 to January 2, 2000

Overview

3 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 3 products from 3 vendors including Microsoft, HP, and Perl. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime", "Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts", and "Link Following".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.
  • HP has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
VULNERABILITIES
LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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1 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
1999-12-31 CVE-1999-1324 HP Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in HP Openvms VAX 5.3/5.4/5.5

VAXstations running Open VMS 5.3 through 5.5-2 with VMS DECwindows or MOTIF do not properly disable access to user accounts that exceed the break-in limit threshold for failed login attempts, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force password guessing.
9.8

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
1999-12-31 CVE-1999-1127 Microsoft Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing malformed data, aka the "Named Pipes Over RPC" vulnerability.
7.5

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
1999-12-31 CVE-1999-1386 Perl Link Following vulnerability in Perl

Perl 5.004_04 and earlier follows symbolic links when running with the -e option, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/perl-eaXXXXX file.
5.5

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS