#VU14414 Resource exhaustion in FreeBSD - CVE-2018-6923

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#VU14414 Resource exhaustion in FreeBSD - CVE-2018-6923

Published: August 15, 2018 / Updated: August 15, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14414
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6923
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
FreeBSD
Software vendor:
FreeBSD Foundation

Description

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.

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