CVE-2000-0440

Summary

CVE-2000-0440 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD 1.4.2 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this issue by sending a packet with an unaligned IP timestamp option, resulting in a system crash or resource exhaustion. This flaw could allow an external adversary to cause significant disruption to affected network services. The unaligned IP timestamp option in the packet causes the system to misinterpret the timestamp data, leading to instability or failure of the targeted system component.

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