CVE-2004-0002 Information

Description

The TCP MSS (maximum segment size) functionality in netinet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via (1) a low MTU which causes a large number of small packets to be produced or (2) via a large number of packets with a small TCP payload which cause a large number of calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function.

Reference

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-January/016271.html