FreeBSD : zeek -- potential DoS vulnerabilities (d47e608f-2e2a-4366-ad17-ce2480bf912d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325493

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the d47e608f-2e2a-4366-ad17-ce2480bf912d advisory.

Tim Wojtulewicz of Corelight reports:
The NVT, Rlogin, and RSH analyzers have received fixes to avoid unbounded state growth. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, these are considered DoS risks.
A specially crafted WebSocket payload can cause the Spicy WebSocket analyzer to use excessive memory when processing close, ping, and pong frames. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, these are considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted series of Finger packets can cause the Spicy Finger analyzer to use excessive amounts of memory and potentially crash Zeek. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted Kerberos packet can cause the Kerberos analyzer to enter an invalid state and potentially crash Zeek. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.

A specially crafted series of RDP packets can cause the RDP analyzer to use excessive amounts of memory and potentially crash Zeek. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted IP packet can cause the IP analyzer to read past the end of the contents of the packet when emitting the packet_contents event and possibly crash.
Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted IP packet can cause the packet discarding code to read off the end of the packet when looking for follow-on header data. This may potentially lead to a crash of Zeek. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted series of Gnutella packets may cause Zeek to continue accumulating memory and eventually crash. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered a DoS risk.
A specially crafted ICMPv6 packet can cause the ICMP analyzer to skip part of the packet and not report corresponding events and logs. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered an evasion risk.
A specially crafted SSH packet can cause the SSH analyzer to throw BinPAC exceptions for extremely large packets and skip logging them otherwise. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered an evasion risk.
A number of issues with the HTTP analyzer were found involving unusual Content-Length, Transfer-Encoding and Expect header usage. Due to the fact that these packets can be received from remote hosts, this is considered an evasion risk.
A series of fixes were applied to the serialization code in Zeek to avoid buffer overreads with both Broker and ZeroMQ traffic. On debug builds, these hit various abort() conditions and cause Zeek to exit. Due to the fact that all of these states require direct access to the Broker/ZeroMQ ports (meaning access to the local network to some degree), this isnt considered a DoS risk.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325493

File Name: freebsd_pkg_d47e608f2e2a4366ad17ce2480bf912d.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/7/2026

Updated: 7/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zeek, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2026

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