CVE-2018-6922

Published Aug 9, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 3.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
One of the data structures that holds TCP segments in all versions of FreeBSD prior to 11.2-RELEASE-p1, 11.1-RELEASE-p12, and 10.4-RELEASE-p10 uses an inefficient algorithm to reassemble the data. This causes the CPU time spent on segment processing to grow linearly with the number of segments in the reassembly queue. An attacker who has the ability to send TCP traffic to a victim system can degrade the victim system's network performance and/or consume excessive CPU by exploiting the inefficiency of TCP reassembly handling, with relatively small bandwidth cost.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18666 One of the data structures that holds TCP segments in all versions of FreeBSD prior to 11.2-RELEASE-p1, 11.1-RELEASE-p12, and 10.4-RELEASE-p10 uses an inefficient algorithm to reassemble the data. This causes the CPU time spent on segment processing to grow linearly with the number of segments in the reassembly queue. An attacker who has the ability to send TCP traffic to a victim system can degrade the victim system's network performance and/or consume excessive CPU by exploiting the inefficiency of TCP reassembly handling, with relatively small bandwidth cost.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
freebsd
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 5:53 PM
Reserved
Feb 12, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 9, 2018, 6:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:02 AM