CVE-2004-0171

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, and Mac OS X before 10.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets, which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.

FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, and Mac OS X before 10.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets, which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.

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

First reported 20 years ago

2004-03-15 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:30:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.6.2

4.6.2

FreeBSD 4.7

4.7

FreeBSD 4.8

4.8

FreeBSD 4.9

4.9

FreeBSD 5.0

5.0

FreeBSD 5.1

5.1

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

OpenBSD 3.3

3.3

OpenBSD 3.4

3.4

References

FreeBSD-SA-04:04

APPLE-SA-2004-05-28

20040302 FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#395670

US Government Resource

4124

9792

Patch, Vendor Advisory

freebsd-mbuf-dos(15369)

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