Vulnerability in FreeBSD
CVE-2004-0171
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.032 (87.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.idefense.com/application/poi/display (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/4124 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)