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CVE-2004-0171

Medium
5/10

Summary

FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, and Mac OS X before 10.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets, which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published