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CVE-2019-5599
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349197 and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p6, a bug in the non-default RACK TCP stack can allow an…
High7.5EPSS 5.1%
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Description
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349197 and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p6, a bug in the non-default RACK TCP stack can allow an attacker to cause several linked lists to grow unbounded and cause an expensive list traversal on every packet being processed, leading to resource exhaustion and a denial of service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Kernel resource exhaustion in network stack
- CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-770 and its CVEs
Affected products
FreeBSD
- affected FreeBSD 12.0 before 12.0-RELEASE-p6
References (10)
- [oss-security] 20190617 Linux and FreeBSD Kernel: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153329/Linux-FreeBSD-TCP-Based-Denial-Of-Service.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-19:08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- VU#905115 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20190624 FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-19:08.rack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153378/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-08.rack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K75521003 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44193 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190625-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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