Information Exposure 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
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383204
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-6919  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 10.4, 11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p9, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p8 and 10.3-RELEASE-p28, due to insufficient initialization of memory copied to userland, small amounts of kernel memory may be disclosed to userland processes. Unprivileged users may be able to access small amounts privileged kernel data.

CVSS Scores

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