Description
The PMTU discovery procedure used by HP-UX 10.30 and 11.00 for determining the optimum MTU generates large amounts of traffic in response to small packets, allowing remote attackers to cause the system to be used as a packet amplifier.
Published: 2000-04-18
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2000-0094 The PMTU discovery procedure used by HP-UX 10.30 and 11.00 for determining the optimum MTU generates large amounts of traffic in response to small packets, allowing remote attackers to cause the system to be used as a packet amplifier.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:05:53.855Z

Reserved: 2000-02-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0095

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Status : Modified

Published: 2000-01-24T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0095

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