Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU20022

Memory corruption in FreeBSD - CVE-2019-5608

Published: August 9, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU20022

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5608

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the MLDv2 listener when processing ICMPv6 packets. A remote attacker can send specially crafted ICMPv6 traffic to the affected system and perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

FreeBSD
EMC Isilon OneFS

How to mitigate CVE-2019-5608

Install updates from vendor's website.

External References

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:19.mldv2.asc

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