CVE-2016-1887

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    CVE-2016-1887

    Published: 25 May 2016Last Modified: 4 Jun 2024

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asc, http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kfreebsd-10

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/kfreebsd-10?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -10.3~svn300087-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High