CVE-2000-0489 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause denial of service on BSD systems by exhausting resources through large socket buffer allocations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-0489?
CVE-2000-0489 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 13 Oct 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0489?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd, Openbsd Openbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0489?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0489 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-2000-0489 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0489 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-58qg-hjfp-7643.