CVE-2002-0518 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, affecting its SYN cache and SYN cookie mechanisms. An attacker could crash the system by sending a crafted SYN packet that triggers a null pointer dereference, or by repeatedly killing and restarting a listening process. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:release:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:stable:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.