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CVSSv2

CVE-2012-3549

Published: 09/10/2012 Updated: 30/01/2013
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 785
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The SCTP implementation in FreeBSD 8.2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via a crafted ASCONF chunk.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #686961 CVE-2012-3549: kfreebsd SCTP DoS Package: kfreebsd-8; Maintainer for kfreebsd-8 is (unknown); Reported by: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debianorg> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:21:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: confirmed, fixed-upstream, security Found in versions kfreebsd-8/83-4, 82-15~bpo60+1 ...

Exploits

/* * FreeBSD kernel SCTP (latest release) remote NULL ptr dereference DoS * * by Shaun Colley <scolley@ioactivecom>, 2 Aug 2012 * * The SCTP implementation used by FreeBSD ("reference implementation") is vulnerable to a remote * NULL pointer dereference in kernel due to a logic bug When parsing ASCONF chunks, an attempt is * made ...