CVE-1999-0052 describes an IP fragmentation denial-of-service vulnerability affecting various BSD-based operating systems, including FreeBSD, BSD/OS, and OpenBSD. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash the system with low attack complexity, resulting in a high impact on availability. Despite its age and high CVSS score of 7.5, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:1.1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.