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CVE-1999-0305

CVE information

Published

26 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

The system configuration control (sysctl) facility in BSD based operating systems OpenBSD 2.2 and earlier, and FreeBSD 2.2.5 and earlier, does not properly restrict source routed packets even when the (1) dosourceroute or (2) forwarding variables are set, which allows remote attackers to spoof TCP connections..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -