Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0433 - Remote Denial Of Service vulnerability in FreeBSD TCP SACK
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) in FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 does not properly handle an incoming selective acknowledgement when there is insufficient memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 2 |
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:08.sack.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18696
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/399
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015566
- http://www.osvdb.org/22861
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16466
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0409
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24453