FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2004-0171

The CVE-2004-0171 issue affects FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier and Mac OS X before 10.3.4. It stems from the TCP reassembly queue not limiting the number of out-of-sequence segments, allowing remote attackers to exhaust memory mbufs and crash the system (denial of service) by sending a flood of out-of-s...

CVE-2004-0171

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...