High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-6923

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p2, 11.1-RELEASE-p13, ip fragment reassembly code is vulnerable to a denial of service due to excessive system resource consumption. This issue can allow a remote attacker who is able to send an arbitrary ip fragments to cause the machine to consume excessive resources.

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Affected products

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<11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p2, 11.1-RELEASE-p13+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p2, 11.1-RELEASE-p13
- (no CPE)range: All supported versions of FreeBSD.

Patches

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105336nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.securitytracker.com/id/1041505nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:10.ip.ascnvdMitigationVendor Advisory

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