CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0323

Published: Jun 02, 2001 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The ICMP path MTU (PMTU) discovery feature in various UNIX systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by spoofing ICMP Fragmentation needed but Dont Fragment (DF) set packets between two target hosts, which could cause one host to lower its MTU when transmitting to the other host.

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