CVE-2000-0489

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-09-05 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

FreeBSD 3.4

3.4

FreeBSD 3.5

3.5

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

OpenBSD 2.5

2.5

OpenBSD 2.6

2.6

OpenBSD 2.7

2.7

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