CVE-2006-0433 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) in FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 does not properly handle an incoming selective acknowledgement when there is insufficient memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

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 0.01362.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Freebsd Subscribe	Freebsd Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.4:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-0440	Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) in FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 does not properly handle an incoming selective acknowledgement when there is insufficient memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:08.sack.asc
http://secunia.com/advisories/18696
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/399
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015566
http://www.osvdb.org/22861
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16466
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0409
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24453

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2006-02-02T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:34:14.833Z

Reserved: 2006-01-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-0433

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-02-02T11:02:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-0433

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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