CVE-2004-0171 in Mac OS X

Summary

FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, and Mac OS X before 10.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets, which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.

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Disclosure

03/15/2004

Status

Confirmed

Entries

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ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
682	Apple Mac OS X Terminal URL denial of service	404	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2004-0171
680	Apple Mac OS X TCP/IP denial of service	404	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2004-0171
679	Apple Mac OS X Packaging denial of service	404	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2004-0171
678	Apple Mac OS X LoginWindow denial of service	404	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2004-0171
543	FreeBSD TCP Queue Sequence denial of service	404	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2004-0171

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details