VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-6923

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.01%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p2, 11.1-RELEASE-p13, ip fragment reassembly code is vulnerable to a denial of service due to excessive system resource consumption. This issue can allow a remote attacker who is able to send an arbitrary ip fragments to cause the machine to consume excessive resources.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references