PT-2000-1975 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2000-12-11 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2000-1066

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions prior to 4.1.1

Description The issue allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long DNS hostname, specifically through the getnameinfo function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.1.1, update to a version that fixes the issue in the getnameinfo function.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-1066

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 4

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1894 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1066 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5454 · Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:63.getnameinfo.asc · Note