Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2019· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2019-5611

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350828, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-STABLE before r350829, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p3, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p14, a missing check in the function to arrange data in a chain of mbufs could cause data returned not to be contiguous. Extra checks in the IPv6 stack could catch the error condition and trigger a kernel panic, leading to a remote denial of service.

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Affected products

FreeBSD/chain of mbufsdescription
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Range: 12.0-STABLE before r350828, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-STABLE before r350829, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p3, 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p14

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References

security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf.ascmitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_refsource_CONFIRM
packetstormsecurity.com/files/154170/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-22.mbuf.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/33mitremailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM

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