CVE-2000-0489

Summary

CVE-2000-0489 refers to a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems. An attacker can exploit this flaw by creating a vast number of socket pairs using the socketpair function and setting a large buffer size via setsockopt. Subsequently, the attacker writes large buffers to these sockets, leading to an excessive consumption of system resources and ultimately causing a denial-of-service condition.

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