Out-of-Bounds Affecting freebsd package, versions [,11.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383191
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2018

CVE-2017-1083  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 11.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, a stack guard-page is available but is disabled by default. This results in the possibility a poorly written process could be cause a stack overflow.

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