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CVE-2005-0740

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-01-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The TCP stack (tcp_input.c) in OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system panic) via crafted values in the TCP timestamp option, which causes invalid arguments to be used when calculating the retransmit timeout.

Affected Platforms

Openbsd Openbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References