CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1887
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 configurations
• freebsd freebsd 10.1
• freebsd freebsd 10.2
• freebsd freebsd 10.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.html Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.html Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asc Vendor Advisory