CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17156
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340268) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, due to incorrectly accounting for padding on 64-bit platforms, a buffer underwrite could occur when constructing an ICMP reply packet when using a non-standard value for the net.inet.icmp.quotelen sysctl.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd (< 11.2)
• freebsd freebsd 11.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106052 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-18:13.icmp.asc Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106052 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-18:13.icmp.asc Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory