CVE-2014-7250 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted packets due to improper TCP session timer implementation in BSD operating systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-7250?
CVE-2014-7250 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 12 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The TCP stack in 4.3BSD Net/2, as used in FreeBSD 5.4, NetBSD possibly 2.0, and OpenBSD possibly 3.6, does not properly implement the session timer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via crafted packets.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7250?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Bsd Bsd, Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd, Openbsd Openbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2014-7250?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-7250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2014-7250 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7250 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x28w-5rvr-6hvm.