CVE-2019-5610 Denial of service in FreeBSD
A remote attacker can cause a denial of service in FreeBSD's bsnmpd by sending malformed TLV data, leading to an out-of-bounds read or crash.
- 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-2019-5610?
CVE-2019-5610 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 29 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350637, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p9, 11.3-STABLE before r350638, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p2, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p13, the bsnmp library is not properly validating the submitted length from a type-length-value encoding. A remote user could cause an out-of-bounds read or trigger a crash of the software such as bsnmpd resulting in a denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5610?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.
How do I fix CVE-2019-5610?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5610 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-2019-5610 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5610 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3c2r-3m9c-jjqx.