CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0916

7.5 HIGH Published 2000-12-19 Modified 2026-09-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-19
Last modified
2026-09-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based OSes, uses an insufficient random number generator to generate initial TCP sequence numbers (ISN), which allows remote attackers to spoof TCP connections.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 2.0 • freebsd freebsd 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 4.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1.1

References