CVE-2003-0804

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The arplookup function in FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, Mac OS X before 10.2.8, and possibly other BSD-based systems, allows remote attackers on a local subnet to cause a denial of service (resource starvation and panic) via a flood of spoofed ARP requests.

Affected products

macOS: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+2)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+2)
FreeBSD: 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 (+8)
OpenBSD: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

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