CVE-2000-0489 Information

Description

FreeBSD NetBSD and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function setting a large buffer size via setsockopt then writing large buffers.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/622 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=NCBBKFKDOLAGKIAPMILPCEJLCEAA.labs@ussrback.com http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.10.9908270039010.16315-100000@thetis.deor.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3298