PT-2004-1411 · Netbsd+1 · Netbsd+1

Georgi Guninski · Published 2004-09-01 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2004-0257

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 OpenBSD version 3.4 NetBSD versions 1.6 through 1.6.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that port.

Recommendations For OpenBSD version 3.4, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue. For NetBSD versions 1.6 through 1.6.1, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0257

Affected Products

Netbsd

Openbsd

References · 9

• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-002.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0257 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/9577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15044 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/3825 · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/016704.html · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107604603226564&w=2 · Note
• http://guninski.com/obsdmtu.html · Note
• http://openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c · Note