CVE-2004-0744

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The TCP/IP Networking component in Mac OS X before 10.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and resource consumption) via a "Rose Attack" that involves sending a subset of small IP fragments that do not form a complete, larger packet.

Affected products

macOS: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+8)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+8)

References

http://digital.net/~gandalf/Rose_Frag_Attack_Explained.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108075899619193&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108308604119618&w=2
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4291
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16946
http://digital.net/~gandalf/Rose_Frag_Attack_Explained.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108075899619193&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108308604119618&w=2
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4291
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16946

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