CVE-2004-0171

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369

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

http://www.osvdb.org/4124

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

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

http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-03-15

Updated: 2017-10-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High