CVE-2014-3711 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the namei function within FreeBSD versions 9.1 through 10.1-RC2. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by causing a sandboxed process to repeatedly look up a large number of nonexistent path names, leading to memory exhaustion. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring low attack complexity but only resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.1:p4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.1:p5:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.2:prerelease:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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