About “Denial of Service (DoS)”

A curated feed of “Denial of Service (DoS)”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 39647 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 3219 were published. Average CVSS is 6.6 (all time; 6.6 over 365d), and 47% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2001-10-18
Medium

CVE-2001-0740

3COM OfficeConnect 812 and 840 ADSL Router 4.2, running OCR812 router software 1.1.9 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string containing a large number of "…

Low

CVE-2001-0741

Cisco Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) allows local attackers to cause a denial of service by spoofing HSRP packets.

Medium

CVE-2001-0743

Paging function in O'Reilly WebBoard Pager 4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message with an escaped ' character followed by JavaScript commands.

Critical

CVE-2001-0746

Buffer overflow in Web Publisher in iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a request for a…

High

CVE-2001-0747

Buffer overflow in iPlanet Web Server (iWS) Enterprise Edition 4.1, service packs 3 through 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long meth…

Medium

CVE-2001-0750

Cisco IOS 12.1(2)T, 12.1(3)T allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reload) via a connection to TCP ports 3100-3999, 5100-5999, 7100-7999 and 10100-10999.

Medium

CVE-2001-0752

Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an ICMP ECHO REQUEST (ping) with the IP Record Route option set.

Medium

CVE-2001-0754

Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of large ICMP ECHO REPLY (ping) packets, which cause it to enter ROMMON mode and stop forwarding packets.

High

CVE-2001-0755

Buffer overflow in ftp daemon (ftpd) 6.2 in Debian GNU/Linux allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SITE command.

Medium

CVE-2001-0769

Memory leak in GuildFTPd Server 0.97 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request containing a null character.

Medium

CVE-2001-0772

Buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities in multiple Common Desktop Environment (CDE) modules in HP-UX 10.10 through 11.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain additional…

Medium

CVE-2001-0773

Cayman 3220-H DSL Router 1.0 allows remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a series of SYN or TCP connect requests.

Medium

CVE-2001-0776

Buffer overflow in DynFX MailServer version 2.10 allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a long username to the POP3 service.

Medium

CVE-2001-0777

Omnicron OmniHTTPd 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests for PHP scripts.

Critical

CVE-2001-0789

Format string vulnerability in avpkeeper in Kaspersky KAV 3.5.135.2 for Sendmail allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed mail message.

Medium

CVE-2001-0790

Specter IDS version 4.5 and 5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a port scan, which causes the server to consume CPU while preparing alerts.

Medium

CVE-2001-0794

Buffer overflow in A-FTP Anonymous FTP Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command.

High

CVE-2001-0795

Perception LiteServe 1.25 allows remote attackers to obtain source code of CGI scripts via URLs that contain MS-DOS conventions such as (1) upper case letters or (2) 8.3 file names.

Medium

CVE-2001-0905

Race condition in signal handling of procmail 3.20 and earlier, when running setuid, allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges by sending a signal while a signal handlin…

Low

CVE-2001-0907

Linux kernel 2.2.1 through 2.2.19, and 2.4.1 through 2.4.10, allows local users to cause a denial of service via a series of deeply nested symlinks, which causes the kernel to spend extra time when t…

2001-10-12
High

CVE-2001-1283

The webmail interface for Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a mailbox name that contains a large number of . (dot) or other ch…

2001-10-09
Medium

CVE-2001-1071

Cisco IOS 12.2 and earlier running Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of CDP neighbor announcements.

2001-10-08
Medium

CVE-2001-1156

TYPSoft FTP 0.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a "../../*" argument to (1) STOR or (2) RETR.

2001-10-06
Medium

CVE-2001-1417

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a buddy icon GIF file whose length and width values are larger than the actual ima…

Medium

CVE-2001-1418

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed WAV file.

Medium

CVE-2001-1421

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large number of different fonts followed by an HTML HR tag.

2001-10-05
Medium

CVE-2001-1126

Symantec LiveUpdate 1.4 through 1.6, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (flood) via DNS spoofing of the update.symantec.com site.

2001-10-02
Medium

CVE-2001-1419

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an instant message that contains a large amount of "<!--" HTML comments.

2001-10-01
Medium

CVE-2001-1124

rpcbind in HP-UX 11.00, 11.04 and 11.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) via a malformed RPC portmap requests, possibly related to a buffer overflow.

2001-09-26
Medium

CVE-2001-1293

Buffer overflow in web server of 3com HomeConnect Cable Modem External with USB (#3CR29223) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HTTP request.

2001-09-25
Medium

CVE-2001-1033

Compaq TruCluster 1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a port scan from a system that does not have a DNS PTR record, which causes the cluster to enter a "split-brain" state.

2001-09-24
Medium

CVE-2001-0998

IBM HACMP 4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a completed TCP connection to HACMP ports (e.g., using a port scan) that does not send additional data, which causes a failure i…

2001-09-22
High

CVE-2001-0955

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of cha…

2001-09-20
Medium

CVE-2001-0508

Vulnerability in IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (restart) via a long, invalid WebDAV request.

Medium

CVE-2001-0509

Vulnerabilities in RPC servers in (1) Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and earlier, (2) Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and earlier, (3) Windows NT 4.0, and (4) Windows 2000 allow remote attackers to cause a…

Medium

CVE-2001-0543

Memory leak in NNTP service in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed posts.

Medium

CVE-2001-0546

Memory leak in H.323 Gatekeeper Service in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large amount…

Low

CVE-2001-0547

Memory leak in the proxy service in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 allows local attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion).

High

CVE-2001-0636

Buffer overflows in Raytheon SilentRunner allow remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service in the collector (cle.exe) component of SilentRunner 2.0 via traffic containing long passwords, or (2…

Medium

CVE-2001-0646

Maxum Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.3 and 2.0.3 dev 3 allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (hang) by creating a directory name of a specific length.

Medium

CVE-2001-0649

Personal Web Sharing 1.5.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long HTTP request.

Medium

CVE-2001-0659

Buffer overflow in IrDA driver providing infrared data exchange on Windows 2000 allows attackers who are physically close to the machine to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a malformed IrDA pac…

Medium

CVE-2001-0675

Rit Research Labs The Bat! 1.51 for Windows allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an email to a user's account containing a carriage return <CR> that is not followed by a l…

Medium

CVE-2001-0681

Buffer overflow in ftpd in QPC QVT/Net 5.0 and QVT/Term 5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long (1) username or (2) password.

Medium

CVE-2001-0683

Memory leak in Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.4 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by repeatedly sending approximately 5K of data to TCP port 5238.

Medium

CVE-2001-0684

Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.4 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending seven or more characters to TCP port 5239.

Medium

CVE-2001-0688

Broker FTP Server 5.9.5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by repeatedly issuing an invalid CD or CWD ("CD . .") command.

Medium

CVE-2001-0695

WFTPD 3.00 R5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by making repeated requests to cd to the floppy drive (A:\).

Medium

CVE-2001-0696

NetWin SurgeFTP 2.0a and 1.0b allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a CD command to a directory with an MS-DOS device name such as con.

Medium

CVE-2001-0697

NetWin SurgeFTP prior to 1.1h allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via an 'ls ..' command.

High

CVE-2001-0702

Cerberus FTP 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a long (1) username, (2) password, or (3) PASV command.

Medium

CVE-2001-0703

tradecli.dll in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a URL request with an MS-DOS device name in the template parameter.

Low

CVE-2001-0706

Maximum Rumpus FTP Server 2.0.3 dev and before allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a mkdir command that specifies a large number of sub-folders.

Medium

CVE-2001-0707

Denicomp RSHD 2.18 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string to port 514.

Medium

CVE-2001-0708

Denicomp REXECD 1.05 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string.

Medium

CVE-2001-0710

NetBSD 1.5 and earlier and FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of IP fragments to the machine, exhausting the mbuf pool.

2001-09-13
Low

CVE-2001-1136

The libsecurity library in HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS) allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

2001-09-10
Low

CVE-2001-1405

Bugzilla before 2.14 does not restrict access to sanitycheck.cgi, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of requests to sanitycheck.cgi.

2001-09-06
Medium

CVE-2001-1137

D-Link DI-704 Internet Gateway firmware earlier than V2.56b6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via malformed IP datagram fragments.

2001-09-04
Medium

CVE-2001-0994

Marconi ForeThought 7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by causing both telnet sessions to be locked via unusual input (e.g., from a port scanner), which prevents others from log…

2001-08-31
High

CVE-2000-1192

Buffer overflow in BTT Software SNMP Trap Watcher 1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long string trap.

Medium

CVE-2000-1193

Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (PMCD) in Performance Copilot in IRIX 6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an extremely long string to the PMCD port.

High

CVE-2000-1194

Argosoft FRP server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long string to the (1) USER or (2) CWD commands.

Low

CVE-2000-1197

POP2 or POP3 server (pop3d) in imap-uw IMAP package on FreeBSD and other operating systems creates lock files with predictable names, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (lack of ma…

Medium

CVE-2000-1198

qpopper POP server creates lock files with predictable names, which allows local users to cause a denial of service for other users (lack of mail access) by creating lock files for other mail boxes.

Medium

CVE-2000-1201

Check Point FireWall-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (high CPU) via a flood of packets to port 264.

Medium

CVE-2001-0711

Cisco IOS 11.x and 12.0 with ATM support allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the undocumented Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI) SNMP community string.

Medium

CVE-2001-0965

glFTPD 1.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a LIST command with an argument that contains a large number of * (asterisk) characters.

Medium

CVE-2001-1064

Cisco 600 series routers running CBOS 2.0.1 through 2.4.2ap allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via multiple connections to the router on the (1) HTTP or (2) telnet service, which ca…

Critical

CVE-2001-1067

Buffer overflow in AOLserver 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via an HTTP request with a long Authorization header.

Low

CVE-2001-1070

Sage Software MAS 200 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to port 10000 and entering a series of control characters.

2001-08-30
Medium

CVE-2001-1154

Cyrus 2.0.15, 2.0.16, and 1.6.24 on BSDi 4.2, with IMAP enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) using PHP IMAP clients.

2001-08-29
Medium

CVE-2001-0682

ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service by running a trojan to initialize a ZoneAlarm mutex object which prevents ZoneAlarm from starting.

High

CVE-2001-1389

Multiple vulnerabilities in xinetd 2.3.0 and earlier, and additional variants until 2.3.3, may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code, primarily via buffer over…

2001-08-28
High

CVE-2001-1153

lpsystem in OpenUnix 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.

2001-08-22
Medium

CVE-2001-0394

Remote manager service in Website Pro 3.0.37 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of malformed HTTP requests to the /dyn directory.

Medium

CVE-2001-0564

APC Web/SNMP Management Card prior to Firmware 310 only supports one telnet connection, which allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via repeated failed logon attempts which temporari…

Medium

CVE-2001-0580

Hughes Technologies Virtual DNS (VDNS) Server 1.0 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service by connecting to port 6070, sending some data, and closing the connection.

Medium

CVE-2001-0581

Spytech Spynet Chat Server 6.5 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections to port 6387.

Medium

CVE-2001-0583

Alt-N Technologies MDaemon 3.5.4 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via the URL request of a MS-DOS device (such as GET /aux) to (1) the Worldclient service at port 3000, or (2) t…

Low

CVE-2001-0584

IMAP server in Alt-N Technologies MDaemon 3.5.6 allows a local user to cause a denial of service (hang) via long (1) SELECT or (2) EXAMINE commands.

Medium

CVE-2001-0585

Gordano NTMail 6.0.3c allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a long (>= 255 characters) URL request to port 8000 or port 9000.

Medium

CVE-2001-0606

Vulnerability in iPlanet Web Server 4.X in HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS) with VirtualVault A.04.00 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via the HTTPS service.

Medium

CVE-2001-0607

asecure as included with HP-UX 10.01 through 11.00 can allow a local attacker to create a denial of service and gain additional privileges via unsafe permissions on the asecure program, a different v…

Medium

CVE-2001-0612

McAfee Remote Desktop 3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of packets to port 5045.

Medium

CVE-2001-0613

Omnicron Technologies OmniHTTPD Professional 2.08 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a long POST URL request.

High

CVE-2001-0634

Sun Chili!Soft ASP has weak permissions on various configuration files, which allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges and create a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-2001-1294

Buffer overflow in A-V Tronics Inetserv 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) in the Webmail interface via a long username and password.

2001-08-21
Low

CVE-2001-1133

Vulnerability in a system call in BSDI 3.0 and 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) in the kernel via a particular sequence of instructions.

Medium

CVE-2001-1149

Panda Antivirus Platinum before 6.23.00 allows a remore attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) when a user selects an action for a malformed UPX packed executable file.

2001-08-20
Medium

CVE-2000-1203

Lotus Domino SMTP server 4.63 through 5.08 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by forging an email message with the sender as bounce@[127.0.0.1] (localhost), which…

2001-08-14
Medium

CVE-2001-0558

T. Hauck Jana Webserver 2.01 beta 1 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a URL request which includes a MS-DOS device name (i.e. GET /aux HTTP/1.0).

Medium

CVE-2001-0563

ElectroSystems Engineering Inc. ElectroComm 2.0 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via large (> 160000 character) strings sent to port 23.

Medium

CVE-2001-0566

Cisco Catalyst 2900XL switch allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via an empty UDP packet sent to port 161 (SNMP) when SNMP is disabled.

Medium

CVE-2001-0616

Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server prior to 4.1 SR3 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a URL request which includes a MS-DOS device name (e.g., GET /aux HTTP/1.0).

2001-08-13
High

CVE-2001-1292

Sambar Telnet Proxy/Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password.

2001-08-09
Medium

CVE-2001-1134

Xerox DocuPrint N40 Printers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed data, such as that produced by the Code Red worm.

2001-08-07
Medium

CVE-2001-1259

Avaya Argent Office allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending UDP packets to port 53 with no payload.

2001-08-06
Medium

CVE-2001-0647

Orange Web Server 2.1, based on GoAhead, allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service via an HTTP GET request that does not include the HTTP version.

2001-08-03
Low

CVE-2001-1122

Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a allows a local user with write access to winnt/system32 to cause a denial of service (crash in lsass.exe) by running the NT4ALL exploit program in 'SPECIAL' mode.

Medium

CVE-2001-1304

Buffer overflow in SHOUTcast Server 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via several HTTP requests with a long (1) user-agent or (2) host HTTP header.

2001-08-02
Medium

CVE-2001-0592

Watchguard Firebox II prior to 4.6 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service in the kernel via a large stream (>10,000) of malformed ICMP or TCP packets.

Medium

CVE-2001-0598

Symantec Ghost 6.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service by sending large (> 45Kb) amounts of data to the Ghost Configuration Server on port 1347, which triggers an error…

Medium

CVE-2001-0599

Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Database Engine 6.0.3.2747 and earlier as included with Symantec Ghost 6.5 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service by sending large (> 45Kb) amounts of…

Medium

CVE-2001-0600

Lotus Domino R5 prior to 5.0.7 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via repeated URL requests with the same HTTP headers, such as (1) Accept, (2) Accept-Charset, (3) Accept-Encoding…

Medium

CVE-2001-0601

Lotus Domino R5 prior to 5.0.7 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via HTTP requests containing certain combinations of UNICODE characters.

Medium

CVE-2001-0602

Lotus Domino R5 prior to 5.0.7 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via repeated (>400) URL requests for DOS devices.

Medium

CVE-2001-0603

Lotus Domino R5 prior to 5.0.7 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via repeatedly sending large (> 10Kb) amounts of data to the DIIOP - CORBA service on TCP port 63148.

Medium

CVE-2001-0604

Lotus Domino R5 prior to 5.0.7 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via URL requests (>8Kb) containing a large number of '/' characters.

Low

CVE-2001-0624

QNX 2.4 allows a local user to read arbitrary files by directly accessing the mount point for the FAT disk partition, e.g. /fs-dos.

2001-07-30
Medium

CVE-2001-1055

The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as dem…

Medium

CVE-2001-1057

The License Manager (mathlm) for Mathematica 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by connecting to port 16286 and not disconnecting, which prevents u…

2001-07-29
Medium

CVE-2001-1289

Quake 3 arena 1.29f and 1.29g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed connection packet that begins with several char-255 characters.

2001-07-27
Low

CVE-2001-1288

Windows 2000 and Windows NT allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by executing a command at the command prompt and pressing the F7 and enter keys several times while the command is…

2001-07-24
Low

CVE-2001-0993

sendmsg function in NetBSD 1.3 through 1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel trap or panic) via a msghdr structure with a large msg_controllen length.

Medium

CVE-2001-1097

Cisco routers and switches running IOS 12.0 through 12.2.1 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a flood of UDP packets.

2001-07-21
Medium

CVE-2001-0018

Windows 2000 domain controller in Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, or Datacenter Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of malformed service requests.

Medium

CVE-2001-0345

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to prevent idle Telnet sessions from timing out, causing a denial of service by creating a large number of idle sessions.

Medium

CVE-2001-0346

Handle leak in Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to cause a denial of service by starting a large number of sessions and terminating them.

Medium

CVE-2001-0348

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long logon command that contains a backspace.