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CVE-2014-3711

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 9.1, 9.1-p4, 9.1-p5, 9.2, 9.2-prerelease, 9.2-rc1 (+10)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031100
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei.asc

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