Resource Management Errors Affecting freebsd package, versions [0,5.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.31% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383005
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 5.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Scores

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