CVE-2000-0489 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2000-0489

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

freebsd, netbsd, openbsd
Vulnerable Versions:
3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

Timeline

Official Publish: October 13th, 2000
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 17th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.