vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-386a14bb-1a21-41c6-a2cf-08d79213379b: zeek -- potential DoS vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 27, 2023
Added
Oct 29, 2023
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Tim Wojtulewicz of Corelight reports: A specially-crafted SSL packet could cause Zeek to leak memory and potentially crash. A specially-crafted series of FTP packets could cause Zeek to log entries for requests that have already been completed, using resources unnecessarily and potentially causing Zeek to lose other traffic. A specially-crafted series of SSL packets could cause Zeek to output a very large number of unnecessary alerts for the same record. A specially-crafted series of SSL packets could cause Zeek to generate very long ssl_history fields in the ssl.log, potentially using a large amount of memory due to unbounded state growth A specially-crafted IEEE802.11 packet could cause Zeek to overflow memory and potentially crash

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-zeek

References

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