Improper Input Validation Affecting freebsd package, versions [10.0,10.4][11.0,11.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382868
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2018

CVE-2017-1082  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In FreeBSD 11.x before 11.1-RELEASE and 10.x before 10.4-RELEASE, the qsort algorithm has a deterministic recursion pattern. Feeding a pathological input to the algorithm can lead to excessive stack usage and potential overflow. Applications that use qsort to handle large data set may crash if the input follows the pathological pattern.

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