Excessive Resource Consumption Vulnerability in FreeBSD IP Fragment Reassembly Code

CVE-2018-6923 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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