CVE-2018-6925

MEDIUM

FreeBSD DoS via IPv6 Protocol Control Block Flags

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r338986), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338985), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13, due to improper maintenance of IPv6 protocol control block flags through various failure paths, an unprivileged authenticated local user may be able to cause a NULL pointer dereference causing the kernel to crash.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-18:11.listen.asc

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 12.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (4)
freebsd/freebsd 10.4 (2 CPE variants)
freebsd/freebsd 11.1 p15
freebsd/freebsd 11.2 p4
freebsd/freebsd < 11.2
Published Sep 28, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026