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FreeBSD "pf" IP Fragment Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18609
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Release Date:
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2006-01-25
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Popularity:
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8,995 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | FreeBSD 5.x
FreeBSD 6.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in FreeBSD, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "pf" Internet Protocol packet-filter fragment cache when handling IP fragments. This can be exploited to crash the system by sending a specially-crafted sequence of IP packet fragments to the packet filter.
Successful exploitation requires that "pf" is used with a ruleset containing "scrub fragment crop" or "scrub fragment drop-ovl" rules.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.3, 5.4, and 6.0.
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