CVE-2000-0314 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Local users can cause denial of service on other systems by exploiting improper parsing of the traceroute waittime option.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2000-0314?

CVE-2000-0314 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 May 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

traceroute in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Linux systems allows local users to flood other systems by providing traceroute with a large waittime (-w) option, which is not parsed properly and sets the time delay for sending packets to zero.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0314?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Digital Unix, Netbsd Netbsd, Redhat Linux, Slackware Slackware Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0314?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0314 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2000-0314 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0314 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-c4h3-4hjj-m5cr.

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