CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-3000

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The TCP reassembly function in the inet module in FreeBSD before versions 8.3 p16, 8.4 p9, 9.1 p12, 9.2 p5, and 10.0 p2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (undefined memory access and system crash) or possibly read system memory via multiple crafted packets.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to destabilize the system, leading to service outages and potential data leakage from system memory.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FreeBSD to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor network traffic for potential attack attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The TCP reassembly function in the inet module in FreeBSD 8.3 before p16, 8.4 before p9, 9.1 before p12, 9.2 before p5, and 10.0 before p2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (undefined memory access and system crash) or possibly read system memory via multiple crafted packets, related to moving a reassemble queue entry to the segment list when the queue is full.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS