CVE-2014-3954

Freebsd vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

3.9%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in rtsold in FreeBSD 9.1 through 10.1-RC2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS parameters in a router advertisement message.

Affected vendor

Freebsd

Affected product

Freebsd

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2014-10-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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