NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting freebsd package, versions (15.0.0-p1,15.0.0-p5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-15812209
  • published29 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2026
  • creditNikolay Denev

Introduced: 26 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-4652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 15.0.0-p5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in the CONNECT process. An attacker can cause a kernel panic and disrupt system availability by sending a specially crafted CONNECT command for an I/O queue with a bogus or stale CNTLID over the network to an NVMe/TCP target.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1