CVE-2001-0469 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the rwho daemon (rwhod) in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and potentially other operating systems. Attackers can trigger this by sending specially crafted, short-length packets remotely. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.0), it requires no authentication and has a low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or media coverage, though it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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