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CVE-2006-0054

The ipfw firewall in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (firewall crash) via ICMP

The ipfw firewall in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (firewall crash) via ICMP IP fragments that match a reset, reject or unreach action, which leads to an access of an uninitialized pointer.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 EPSS 0.03086
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  • SSVC automatable: yes - attacks can be scripted at scale
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-824Access of Uninitialized Pointer
CWE-824Access of Uninitialized Pointer
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Affected Products & Versions

1
freebsdall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

5.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · secteam@freebsd.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD11 Jan 2006 · 09:03 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw.ascBroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/18378Broken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015477Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.osvdb.org/22319Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16209Broken LinkPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24073Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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