CVE-2004-0171 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash FreeBSD and Mac OS X systems by sending excessive out-of-sequence TCP packets, exhausting memory buffers.
- 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-2004-0171?
CVE-2004-0171 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0171?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Openbsd Openbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2004-0171?
No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0171 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-2004-0171 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0171 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g7p7-r9qm-8vc3.