CVE-2000-0095

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The PMTU discovery procedure used by HP-UX 10.30 and 11.00 for determining the optimum MTU generates large amounts of traffic in response to small packets, allowing remote attackers to cause the system to be used as a packet amplifier.

The PMTU discovery procedure used by HP-UX 10.30 and 11.00 for determining the optimum MTU generates large amounts of traffic in response to small packets, allowing remote attackers to cause the system to be used as a packet amplifier.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

HP-UX

First reported 25 years ago

2000-01-24 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:02:00

Affected Software

HP HP-UX 10.30

10.30

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

References

944

HPSBUX0001-110

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