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CVE-2012-3549

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3549 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the SCTP implementation of FreeBSD 8.2. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic by sending a specially crafted ASCONF chunk. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact with no authentication required and low attack complexity, leading to complete system unavailability. While not actively exploited in the wild, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20226 · Aug 3, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0781 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
exploit-db.com / exploits/20226
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/28/9
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/29/6
securityfocus.com / bid/54797
Exploit