CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1879

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-01-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-01-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) module in FreeBSD 9.3 before p33, 10.1 before p26, and 10.2 before p9, when the kernel is configured for IPv6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure or NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via a crafted ICMPv6 packet.

Affected configurations

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

References