What is CVE-2015-1417?

CVE-2015-1417 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-25.

How severe is CVE-2015-1417?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Freebsd

CVE-2015-1417

The inet module in FreeBSD 10.2x before 10.2-PRERELEASE, 10.2-BETA2-p2, 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.1x before 10.1-RELEASE-p16, 9.x before 9.3-STABLE, 9.3-RELEASE-p21, and 8.x before 8.4-STABLE, 8.4-RELEASE-p35 on systems with VNET enabled and at least 16 VNET instances allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mbuf consumption) via multiple concurrent TCP connections.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.033 (87.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 8.4, 9.3, 10.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-1417?: CVE-2015-1417 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2015-1417?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.