CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0489

2.1 LOW Published 1999-09-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-09-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 3.1 • freebsd freebsd 3.2 • freebsd freebsd 3.3 • freebsd freebsd 3.4 • freebsd freebsd 3.5 • freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 5.0 • netbsd netbsd 1.4 • netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 • openbsd openbsd 2.5 • openbsd openbsd 2.6 • openbsd openbsd 2.7

References