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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0171

Original release date:03/15/2004

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#395670

Name: VU#395670

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670

External Source: BID

Name: 9792

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20040302 FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities

External Source: XF