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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-10-13T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:21:31.195Z

Reserved: 2000-07-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2000-0489

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-09-05T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:32:37.483

Link: CVE-2000-0489

cve-icon Redhat

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