CVE-2002-0518 | BDVDB-2026-4159 Detail

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The SYN cache (syncache) and SYN cookie (syncookie) mechanism in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) (1) via a SYN packet that is accepted using syncookies that causes a null pointer to be referenced for the socket's TCP options, or (2) by killing and restarting a process that listens on the same socket, which does not properly clear the old inpcb pointer on restart.

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History#

1. Version 12002-06-11Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-08Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.