CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-5691
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The (1) IPv6 and (2) ATM ioctl request handlers in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2-STABLE do not validate SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFBRDADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR, and SIOCSIFNETMASK requests, which allows local users to perform link-layer actions, cause a denial of service (panic), or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 8.3
• freebsd freebsd 9.0
• freebsd freebsd 9.1
• freebsd freebsd 9.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54861 secunia.com
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442 Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2769 www.debian.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:12.ifioctl.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54861 secunia.com
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442 Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2769 www.debian.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:12.ifioctl.asc Vendor Advisory