CVE-2004-1918

RSniff 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection exhaustion) via a large number of connections with a command other than AUTHENTICATE, or without any data, which prevents the socket from being closed properly.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2004-04-09

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Rsniff (Rsniff)

References

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/rsniff-adv.txt
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108152508004665&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11339
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10093
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15823