01 Record
CVE-2004-0171
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.16% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2004-09-01 04:00Z22 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 00:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2004-02-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0c937a9785c41c6a05e66219830d113c4eb2d50aec8d7ae5d774e79ff7749932
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.seifried.orgAPPLE-SA-2004-05-28http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html
- ftp.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-04:04ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc
- www.idefense.com20040302 FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerabilityhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities
- www.securityfocus.com9792http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792
- www.osvdb.org4124http://www.osvdb.org/4124
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfreebsd-mbuf-dos(15369)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#395670http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670