CVE-2014-8613

high

Published 2015-02-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The sctp module in FreeBSD 10.1 before p5, 10.0 before p17, 9.3 before p9, and 8.4 before p23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via a crafted RE_CONFIG chunk.

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.

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OS impact

FreeBSD Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.1	Affected	—
9.3	Affected	—
8.4	Affected	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.