PT-2014-5465 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2014-10-27 · Updated 2019-03-18 · CVE-2014-3711

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions 9.1 through 10.1-RC2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory exhaustion, by triggering a sandboxed process to look up a large number of nonexistent path names.

Recommendations For FreeBSD versions 9.1 through 10.1-RC2, consider restricting access to the namei function to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3711

DSA-3070-1

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3711 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62218 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031100 · Note
• https://freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc · Patch, Vendor Advisory