CVE-2023-3107
Remote denial of service in IPv6 fragment reassembly
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- freebsd
Description
A set of carefully crafted ipv6 packets can trigger an integer overflow in the calculation of a fragment reassembled packet's payload length field. This allows an attacker to trigger a kernel panic, resulting in a denial of service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Workaround: Users with IPv6 disabled on untrusted network interfaces are not affected. Such interfaces will have the IFDISABLED nd6 flag set in ifconfig(8). The kernel may be configured to drop all IPv6 fragments by setting the net.inet6.ip6.maxfrags sysctl to 0. Doing so will prevent the bug from being triggered, with the caveat that legitimate IPv6 fragments will be dropped. If the pf(4) firewall is enabled, and scrubbing and fragment reassembly is enabled on untrusted interfaces, the bug cannot be triggered. This is the default if pf(4) is enabled.
References (2)
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:06.ipv6.asc (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230804-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_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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