CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2015-5674 — Freebsd Freebsd security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

The routed daemon in FreeBSD 9.3 before 9.3-RELEASE-p22, 10.2-RC2 before 10.2-RC2-p1, 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p2, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p3, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p17 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a query from a network that is not directly connected.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.0)
Published
2018-02-05
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • freebsd / freebsd / 9.3
  • freebsd / freebsd / 10.1
  • freebsd / freebsd / 10.2

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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