CVE-2004-0257

OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that port.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2004-11-23

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Netbsd (Netbsd)
• Openbsd (Openbsd)

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/016704.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107604603226564&w=2
• http://www.guninski.com/obsdmtu.html
• http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c
• http://www.osvdb.org/3825
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9577
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15044