CVE-2014-3711
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
namei in FreeBSD 9.1 through 10.1-RC2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via vectors that trigger a sandboxed process to look up a large number of nonexistent path names.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
FreeBSD Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | Affected | — |
| 10.0 | Affected | — |
| 9.3 | Affected | — |
| 9.2 | Affected | — |
| 9.1 | Affected | — |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.