CVE-2015-1417 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via mbuf consumption in FreeBSD systems with VNET enabled and sufficient instances.
- 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-2015-1417?
CVE-2015-1417 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 25 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The inet module in FreeBSD 10.2x before 10.2-PRERELEASE, 10.2-BETA2-p2, 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.1x before 10.1-RELEASE-p16, 9.x before 9.3-STABLE, 9.3-RELEASE-p21, and 8.x before 8.4-STABLE, 8.4-RELEASE-p35 on systems with VNET enabled and at least 16 VNET instances allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mbuf consumption) via multiple concurrent TCP connections.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1417?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd.
How do I fix CVE-2015-1417?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1417 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-2015-1417 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1417 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6hpv-x6vh-wr8v.