CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0710

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2001-09-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2001-09-20
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

NetBSD 1.5 and earlier and FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of IP fragments to the machine, exhausting the mbuf pool.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 4.3) • netbsd netbsd (<= 1.5)

References

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:52.fragment.asc Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-006.txt.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2799 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6636 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:52.fragment.asc Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-006.txt.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2799 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6636 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com