CVE-2000-0489
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function,...
- Published
- Oct 13, 2000
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Sep 5, 1999
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 51.4%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.
Sources
1L. Sassaman · bsd · Sep 5, 1999
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