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.
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: 0.016 (74.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- OpenBSD — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
References
- www.openbsd.org/errata35.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/13819 (third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12250 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)