CVE-2000-0489 — LOW severity vulnerability (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a de)
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.
| CVE ID | CVE-2000-0489 |
|---|---|
| Severity | LOW |
| CVSS score | 2.1 |
| CVSS vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 1999-09-05 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| 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. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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