CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6754

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-07-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2012-07-25
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-189

Description

The ipalloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD does not properly allocate memory, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, related to "integer rounding and overflow" errors.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 6.4 • netbsd netbsd

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-189

References

http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ kqueue.org
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=167872 Patch
http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ kqueue.org
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=167872 Patch

CVE-2007-6754

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References