Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2004-0002

The TCP MSS (maximum segment size) functionality in netinet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via (1) a low MTU, which causes a large number of small packets to be produced, or (2) via a large number of packets with a small TCP payload, which cause a large number of calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References