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CVE-2001-1244

CVE information

Published

22 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

Multiple TCP implementations could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth and CPU exhaustion) by setting the maximum segment size (MSS) to a very small number and requesting large amounts of data, which generates more packets with less TCP-level data that amplify network traffic and consume more server CPU to process..

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
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:workstation:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp6a:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:hp:vvos:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -