Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freebsd package, versions [3.0,3.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382987
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Sept 1999
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 1999

CVE-1999-0912  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). FreeBSD VFS cache (vfs_cache) allows local users to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of files.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1