CVE-2005-0356 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service by sending spoofed packets with large timestamps, disrupting TCP connections in systems with PAWS enabled.
- 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-2005-0356?
CVE-2005-0356 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 31 May 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection loss) via a spoofed packet with a large timer value, which causes the host to discard later packets because they appear to be too old.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0356?
It affects 76 products.
Products include Alaxala Alaxala Networks, Cisco Agent Desktop, Cisco Aironet Ap1200, Cisco Aironet Ap350, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Ciscoworks 1105 Hosting Solution Engine and 70 more.
How do I fix CVE-2005-0356?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-0356 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-2005-0356 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-0356 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r6gj-g9qf-3c55.