Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-3711 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Freebsd
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
namei in FreeBSD 9.1 through 10.1-RC2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via vectors that trigger a sandboxed process to look up a large number of nonexistent path names.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 16 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_73964EAC600711E6A6C314DAE9D210B8.NASL description The namei facility will leak a small amount of kernel memory every time a sandboxed process looks up a nonexistent path name. Impact : A remote attacker that can cause a sandboxed process (for instance, a web server) to look up a large number of nonexistent path names can cause memory exhaustion. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92910 published 2016-08-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92910 title FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup (73964eac-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92910); script_version("2.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/12/07 9:46:53"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3711"); script_bugtraq_id(70692); script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-14:22.namei"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup (73964eac-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The namei facility will leak a small amount of kernel memory every time a sandboxed process looks up a nonexistent path name. Impact : A remote attacker that can cause a sandboxed process (for instance, a web server) to look up a large number of nonexistent path names can cause memory exhaustion." ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/73964eac-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c0c1740c" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/10/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=10.0<10.0_10")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=9.3<9.3_3")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=9.2<9.2_13")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=9.1<9.1_20")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3070.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or information disclosure. - CVE-2014-3711 Denial of service through memory leak in sandboxed namei lookups. - CVE-2014-3952 Kernel memory disclosure in sockbuf control messages. - CVE-2014-3953 Kernel memory disclosure in SCTP. This update disables SCTP, since the userspace tools shipped in Wheezy didn last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-11-10 plugin id 79066 published 2014-11-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79066 title Debian DSA-3070-1 : kfreebsd-9 - security update
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc