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CVE-2019-5599 Detail

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349197 and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p6, a bug in the non-default RACK TCP stack can allow an attacker to cause several linked lists to grow unbounded and cause an expensive list traversal on every packet being processed, leading to resource exhaustion and a denial of service.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153329/Linux-FreeBSD-TCP-Based-Denial-Of-Service.html Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153378/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-08.rack.html Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/17/5 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44193 Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/27 Mailing List  Mitigation  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:08.rack.asc Mitigation  Vendor Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190625-0004/ Third Party Advisory 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K75521003 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/905115 Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-5599
NVD Published Date:
07/02/2019
NVD Last Modified:
08/24/2020
Source:
FreeBSD