CVE-2015-1417: freebsd Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2015-1417 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in freebsd. EPSS estimates a 3.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 25-07-2017PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The inet module in FreeBSD 10.2x before 10.2-PRERELEASE, 10.2-BETA2-p2, 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.1x before 10.1-RELEASE-p16, 9.x before 9.3-STABLE, 9.3-RELEASE-p21, and 8.x before 8.4-STABLE, 8.4-RELEASE-p35 on systems with VNET enabled and at least 16 VNET instances allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mbuf consumption) via multiple concurrent TCP connections.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
3.32%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
89%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.26 pp
From 3.06% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- kfreebsd-10< 10.2-1
Freebsd1 product
- freebsdEOL8.4 | 8.4:beta1 | 8.4:p11 | 8.4:p12 | 8.4:p13 | 8.4:p14 | 8.4:p15 | 8.4:p16 | 8.4:p17 | 8.4:p19 | 8.4:p2 | 8.4:p20 | 8.4:p21 | 8.4:p22 | 8.4:p23 | 8.4:p24 | 8.4:p26 | 8.4:p27 | 8.4:p3 | 8.4:p30 | 8.4:p33 | 8.4:p34 | 8.4:p4 | 8.4:p7 | 8.4:p8 | 8.4:p9 | 9.3 | 9.3:p1 | 9.3:p10 | 9.3:p12 | 9.3:p13 | 9.3:p16 | 9.3:p19 | 9.3:p2 | 9.3:p20 | 9.3:p3 | 9.3:p5 | 9.3:p6 | 9.3:p7 | 9.3:p8 | 9.3:p9 | 10.1 | 10.1:p1 | 10.1:p10 | 10.1:p12 | 10.1:p15 | 10.1:p16 | 10.1:p2 | 10.1:p3 | 10.1:p4 | 10.1:p5 | 10.1:p6 | 10.1:p7 | 10.1:p8 | 10.1:p9 | 10.2
2 vendors · 2 products
References
3 links- www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp.ascVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FREEBSDAdvisory