CVE-2000-0095: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The PMTU discovery procedure used by HP-UX 10.30 and 11.00 for determining the optimum MTU generates large amounts of traffic in response to small packets, allowing remote attackers to cause the system to be used as a packet amplifier.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.30 only; version 11.00 only

Published 2000-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.