CVE-2004-0171

Publication date

2004-09-01 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.