CVE-2004-0171 Information

Description

FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier and Mac OS X before 10.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670 http://www.osvdb.org/4124 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369