Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 15, 2004· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2004-0171
CVE-2004-0171
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.
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=5.1
Patches
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References
7- www.idefense.com/application/poi/displaynvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670nvdUS Government Resource
- ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.ascnvd
- lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.htmlnvd
- www.osvdb.org/4124nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369nvd
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