CVE-2000-0916

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CVE-2000-0916

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CVE-2000-0916 at MITRE

Description

FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based OSes, uses an insufficient random number generator to generate initial TCP sequence numbers (ISN), which allows remote attackers to spoof TCP connections.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This is a BSD operating system specific issue and does not affect Linux. Please also see CVE-1999-0077.

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jun 27 23:45:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:21 2022