Out-of-Bounds Affecting kfreebsd-10 package, versions <10.3~svn300087-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-KFREEBSD10-337071
  • published25 May 2016
  • disclosed25 May 2016

Introduced: 25 May 2016

CVE-2016-1886  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 kfreebsd-10 to version 10.3~svn300087-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kfreebsd-10 package and not the kfreebsd-10 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer signedness error in the genkbd_commonioctl function in sys/dev/kbd/kbd.c in FreeBSD 9.3 before p42, 10.1 before p34, 10.2 before p17, and 10.3 before p3 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and kernel crash), or gain privileges via a negative value in the flen structure member in the arg argument in a SETFKEY ioctl call, which triggers a "two way heap and stack overflow."