CVE-2001-0284 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Buffer overflow in IPSEC authentication mechanism for OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a malformed Authentication header (AH) IPv4 option.

Published: 2001-05-07

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 1.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0284	Buffer overflow in IPSEC authentication mechanism for OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a malformed Authentication header (AH) IPv4 option.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01368.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ipsec_ah
http://www.osvdb.org/6026

History

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Subscriptions

Openbsd Openbsd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-05-07T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:14:07.375Z

Reserved: 2001-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0284

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-05-03T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2001-0284

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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