CVE-2000-0489
CVSS 2.0 Score 2.1 of 10 (low)
Details
Published Sep 5, 1999
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
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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Affected Products
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
Affected Vendors
- OpenBSD Project
- FreeBSD Project