Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-3549 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Freebsd 8.2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The SCTP implementation in FreeBSD 8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via a crafted ASCONF chunk. Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | FreeBSD Kernel SCTP Remote NULL Ptr Dereference DoS. CVE-2012-3549. Dos exploit for freebsd platform |
| file | exploits/freebsd/dos/20226.c |
| id | EDB-ID:20226 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 2012-08-03 |
| platform | freebsd |
| port | |
| published | 2012-08-03 |
| reporter | Shaun Colley |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/20226/ |
| title | FreeBSD Kernel SCTP Remote NULL Ptr Dereference DoS |
| type | dos |