CVE-2002-0518

Published Jun 11, 2002 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0514 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 2:49 AM
Reserved
Jun 7, 2002, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 12, 2002, 4:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 9:57 PM