Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2001-1244

Multiple TCP implementations could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth and CPU exhaustion) by setting the maximum segment size (MSS) to a very small number and requesting large amounts of data, which generates mo…

EPSS: 0.207 (97.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 4.3
Hp Hp-ux — versions 11.00, 11.0.4, 11.11
Hp Vvos — versions 11.04
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2
Microsoft Windows_2000
Microsoft Windows_nt — versions 4.0
Netbsd — versions 1.5, 1.5.1
Openbsd — versions 2.8, 2.9
Sun Sunos — versions 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)