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CVE-2000-0489

Published: Sep 05, 1999 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0489
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FreebsdFreebsd3.0 (including)3.0 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.1 (including)3.1 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.2 (including)3.2 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.3 (including)3.3 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.4 (including)3.4 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.5 (including)3.5 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd4.0 (including)4.0 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd5.0-alpha (including)5.0-alpha (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.4 (including)1.4 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.4.1 (including)1.4.1 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.4.2 (including)1.4.2 (including)
OpenbsdOpenbsd2.5 (including)2.5 (including)
OpenbsdOpenbsd2.6 (including)2.6 (including)
OpenbsdOpenbsd2.7 (including)2.7 (including)

References

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