Medium 5.0Published Nov 17, 2003

CVE-2003-0804The 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 starv…

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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.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.2; 10.2.1; 10.2.2; 10.2.3; 10.2.4; 10.2.5; 10.2.6; 10.2.7	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.2; 10.2.1; 10.2.2; 10.2.3; 10.2.4; 10.2.5; 10.2.6; 10.2.7	NVD
freebsd freebsd freebsd:freebsd	4.0; 4.1; 4.1.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 4.5; 4.6; and 6 more ranges	NVD
openbsd openbsd openbsd:openbsd	3.2; 3.3; 3.4	NVD

References

References

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

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