CVE-2018-6923 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting FreeBSD versions prior to 11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p2, and 11.1-RELEASE-p13. A remote attacker can exploit a flaw in the IP fragment reassembly code to cause excessive system resource consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.