CVE-2004-0744: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 only; version 10.2.5 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 only; version 10.2.5 only; …

Published 2004-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.