01 Record
CVE-2004-0257
OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that
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
- 2.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.1% 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
- 2004-03-17
- 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
- f7df33539aea13b00ef11775d2ff58f08011a63d481fbf41f8f6d033cc5f3c69
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.guninski.comhttp://www.guninski.com/obsdmtu.html
- www.openbsd.orghttp://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c
- marc.info20040205 OpenBSD IPv6 remote kernel crashhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107604603226564&w=2
- lists.grok.org.uk20040204 Remote openbsd crash with ip6, yet still openbsd much better than windowshttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/016704.html
- www.osvdb.org3825http://www.osvdb.org/3825
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comopenbsd-ipv6-dos(15044)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15044
- www.securityfocus.com9577http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9577
- ftp.netbsd.orgNetBSD-SA2004-002ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-002.txt.asc