CVE-2018-18541 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-18541?

CVE-2018-18541 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download packets.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18541?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Teeworlds Teeworlds.

How do I fix CVE-2018-18541?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2018-18541 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18541 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18541, DSA-4329-1, GHSA-8wj8-f5hm-vg9x, MGASA-2018-0450, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18541.