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CVE-2000-0489

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

Published

1999-09-05T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-Other
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.0 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.1 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.2 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.3 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.4 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 3.5 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 4.0 Yes
Operating System freebsd freebsd 5.0 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 Yes
Operating System netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 Yes
Operating System openbsd openbsd 2.5 Yes
Operating System openbsd openbsd 2.6 Yes
Operating System openbsd openbsd 2.7 Yes
References