CVE-2004-0171
N/A
Published: September 1, 2004 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeBSDOpenBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.ascVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilitiesThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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