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CVE-2004-0171 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  03/15/2004

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc
http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html
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.securityfocus.com/bid/9792 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2004-0171
NVD Published Date:
03/15/2004
NVD Last Modified:
10/09/2017