CVE-2018-25062

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in flar2 ElementalX up to 6.x on Nexus 9. Affected is the function xfrm_dump_policy_done of the file net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c of the component ipsec. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Upgrading to version 7.00 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 1df72c9f0f61304437f4f1037df03b5fb36d5a79. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217152.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://github.com/flar2/ElementalX-N9/commit/1df72c9f0f61304437f4f1037df03b5fb36d5a79
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217152
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217152