CVE-2001-0710 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD 1.5 and earlier, and FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a large volume of IP fragments, which exhausts the system's mbuf pool, leading to service disruption. This vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.0) due to its network-based attack vector and low complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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