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CVE-2004-0002

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2004-03-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References