VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2004-0002

CVSS score10 HIGH
EPSS probability2.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-03-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The TCP MSS (maximum segment size) functionality in netinet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via (1) a low MTU, which causes a large number of small packets to be produced, or (2) via a large number of packets with a small TCP payload, which cause a large number of calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function.

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