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CVE-2000-0489

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 1999-09-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Openbsd OpenbsdFreebsd FreebsdNetbsd Netbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References