CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1887

Published: May 25, 2016 | Modified: May 26, 2016
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Integer signedness error in the sockargs function in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in FreeBSD 10.1 before p34, 10.2 before p17, and 10.3 before p3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and kernel panic) or gain privileges via a negative buflen argument, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 (including) 10.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 10.3 (including) 10.3 (including)

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