CVE-ID

CVE-2002-0518

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Description
The SYN cache (syncache) and SYN cookie (syncookie) mechanism in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) (1) via a SYN packet that is accepted using syncookies that causes a null pointer to be referenced for the socket's TCP options, or (2) by killing and restarting a process that listens on the same socket, which does not properly clear the old inpcb pointer on restart.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20020607 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Modified (20050817)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(3) Baker, Cole, Frech
NOOP(3) Cox, Foat, Wall
Comments (Legacy)
Proposed (Legacy)
20020611
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