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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.