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CVE-2006-0054

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2006-02-14	ipfw -- IP fragment denial of service

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CVE-2006-0054 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2006-0054
Phase	Assigned(20051230)

Description

The ipfw firewall in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (firewall crash) via ICMP IP fragments that match a reset, reject or unreach action, which leads to an access of an uninitialized pointer.

References

Source	Reference
FREEBSD	FreeBSD-SA-06:04
BID	16209
OSVDB	22319
SECTRACK	1015477
SECUNIA	18378
XF	ipfw-icmp-fragment-dos(24073)