CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-5666
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The sendfile system-call implementation in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 and 9.2-RC2 does not properly pad transmissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory) via a length greater than the length of the file.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 9.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/97142 osvdb.org
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442 svnweb.freebsd.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13%3a11.sendfile.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029013 www.securitytracker.com
- http://osvdb.org/97142 osvdb.org
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442 svnweb.freebsd.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13%3a11.sendfile.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029013 www.securitytracker.com