CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6925

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 28, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r338986), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338985), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13, due to improper maintenance of IPv6 protocol control block flags through various failure paths, an unprivileged authenticated local user may be able to cause a NULL pointer dereference causing the kernel to crash.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FreebsdFreebsd*11.2 (excluding)
FreebsdFreebsd10.4 (including)10.4 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd10.4-p13 (including)10.4-p13 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd11.1-p15 (including)11.1-p15 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd11.2-p4 (including)11.2-p4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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