CVE-2004-0002

The TCP MSS (maximum segment size) functionality in netinet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via (1) a low MTU, which causes a large number of small packets to be produced, or (2) via a large number of packets with a small TCP payload, which cause a large number of calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function.

Score

CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2004-03-03

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-January/016271.html