CVE

Id
8430  
CVE No.
CVE-2004-0002  
Status
Candidate  
Description
The TCP MSS (maximum segment size) functionality in netinet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via (1) a low MTU, which causes a large number of small packets to be produced, or (2) via a large number of packets with a small TCP payload, which cause a large number of calls to the resource-intensive sowakeup function.  
Phase
Proposed (20040318)  
Votes
ACCEPT(4) Armstrong, Baker, Cole, Williams | NOOP(2) Cox, Wall  
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