Description
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.
Exploits (1)
References (4)
Scores
EPSS
0.0105
EPSS Percentile
77.6%
Details
Status
published
Products (14)
freebsd/freebsd
3.0
freebsd/freebsd
3.1
freebsd/freebsd
3.2
freebsd/freebsd
3.3
freebsd/freebsd
3.4
freebsd/freebsd
3.5
freebsd/freebsd
4.0
freebsd/freebsd
5.0 alpha
netbsd/netbsd
1.4
netbsd/netbsd
1.4.1 (4 CPE variants)
... and 4 more
Published
Sep 05, 1999
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026