Vulnerability in Openbsd

CVE-2005-0740

The TCP stack (tcp_input.c) in OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system panic) via crafted values in the TCP timestamp option, which causes invalid arguments to be used when calculating the retransmit timeout.

EPSS: 0.016 (72.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Openbsd — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_OPENBSD, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)