Record summary

CVE-2000-0489 has a selected CVSS score of 2.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBFreeBSD 5.0 / NetBSD 1.4.2 / OpenBSD 2.7 - 'setsockopt()' Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby L. SassamanNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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