CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-0171
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-03-15
- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 4.6.2
• freebsd freebsd 4.7
• freebsd freebsd 4.8
• freebsd freebsd 4.9
• freebsd freebsd 5.0
• freebsd freebsd 5.1
• freebsd freebsd 5.2
• openbsd openbsd 3.3
• openbsd openbsd 3.4
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html lists.seifried.org
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/4124 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html lists.seifried.org
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/4124 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com