NVD

Id
79524  
Name
CVE-2002-0518  
Description
The SYN cache (syncache) and SYN cookie (syncookie) mechanism in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) (1) via a SYN packet that is accepted using syncookies that causes a null pointer to be referenced for the socket"s TCP options, or (2) by killing and restarting a process that listens on the same socket, which does not properly clear the old inpcb pointer on restart.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
5  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
5  
CVSS Impact Subscore
2.9  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
10  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)  
Pub Date
2017-01-05  
Published
2002-08-12  
Modified Date
2008-09-05  
Seq
2002-0518  

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Related NVD References

Id NVD Id NVD No. Reference Actions
396740 79524 CVE-2002-0518 FreeBSD-SA-02:20  View
396741 79524 CVE-2002-0518 bsd-syncookie-pointer-dos(8873)  View
396742 79524 CVE-2002-0518 bsd-syncache-inpcb-dos(8875)  View
396743 79524 CVE-2002-0518 4524  View

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