CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0095

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-01-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-01-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• hp hp-ux 10.30 • hp hp-ux 11.00

References