SB2018081509 - Denial of service in FreeBSD
Published: August 15, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018081509
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6923)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing specially crafted input. A remote attacker can send a stream of specially crafted
fragments with a low packet rate, consume a large amount of CPU or all available mbuf clusters and cause the system to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.