CVE-2000-0314

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

traceroute in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Linux systems allows local users to flood other systems by providing traceroute with a large waittime (-w) option, which is not parsed properly and sets the time delay for sending packets to zero.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 2.0.34
Digital Unix: 4.0
Netbsd: through 1.3.3
RedHat Linux: 2.0.34
Slackware Linux: 2.0.34

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91893782027835&w=2
http://www.osvdb.org/7574
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91893782027835&w=2
http://www.osvdb.org/7574

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