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CVE-2000-0489

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CVE-2000-0489

Published: Oct 13, 2000

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

bsd-setsockopt-dos(3298)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
622
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
19990826 Local DoS in FreeBSD
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ

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