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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383045
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-6924  (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 before 11.1-STABLE, 11.2-RELEASE-p3, 11.1-RELEASE-p14, 10.4-STABLE, and 10.4-RELEASE-p12, insufficient validation in the ELF header parser could allow a malicious ELF binary to cause a kernel crash or disclose kernel memory.

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