Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4809

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-09-06 19:26:45
Last updated 2025-02-13 17:18:10
Assigner freebsd
State PUBLISHED

Description

In pf packet processing with a scrub fragment reassemble rule, a packet containing multiple IPv6 fragment headers would be reassembled, and then immediately processed. That is, a packet with multiple fragment extension headers would not be recognized as the correct ultimate payload. Instead a packet with multiple IPv6 fragment headers would unexpectedly be interpreted as a fragmented packet, rather than as whatever the real payload is. As a result, IPv6 fragments may bypass pf firewall rules written on the assumption all fragments have been reassembled and, as a result, be forwarded or processed by the host.