CVE-2004-0257 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that port.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02029.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.4:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-0257	OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that port.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-002.txt.asc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/016704.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107604603226564&w=2
http://www.guninski.com/obsdmtu.html
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c
http://www.osvdb.org/3825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9577
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15044

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:10:03.769Z

Reserved: 2004-03-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-0257

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2004-11-23T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2004-0257

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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