CVE-2003-0804 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers on a local subnet can cause denial of service via spoofed ARP requests in FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

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

What is CVE-2003-0804?

CVE-2003-0804 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 25 Sep 2003. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The arplookup function in FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, Mac OS X before 10.2.8, and possibly other BSD-based systems, allows remote attackers on a local subnet to cause a denial of service (resource starvation and panic) via a flood of spoofed ARP requests.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0804?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Freebsd Freebsd, Openbsd Openbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0804?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0804 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-2003-0804 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0804 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rxhq-jfc6-wqxf.

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