CVE-2004-0002 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the TCP MSS functionality of FreeBSD's netinet. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending either a low MTU, leading to numerous small packets, or many packets with small TCP payloads, triggering excessive calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:releng:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.