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.
References
- APPLE-SA-2004-05-28 vendor-advisory
- 20040302 FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability third-party-advisory
- 9792 vdb-entry
- 4124 vdb-entry
- freebsd-mbuf-dos(15369) vdb-entry
- VU#395670 third-party-advisory