CVE-2005-4257 (GCVE-0-2005-4257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-15 11:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:27
VLAI
Summary
Linksys WRT54GS and BEFW11S4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash) via an IP packet with the same source and destination IPs and ports, and with the SYN flag set (aka LAND). NOTE: the provenance of this issue is unknown; the details are obtained solely from the BID.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2311 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15861 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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