CVE-2000-0489

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1999-09-05 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0489, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0489

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P