CVE-2006-0433 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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).

Published: 2006-02-02

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.4:::::::*

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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-2006-0440	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).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0156.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Freebsd Freebsd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2006-02-02T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:34:14.833Z

Reserved: 2006-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0433

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-02-02T11:02:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-0433

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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