Information Exposure Affecting freebsd package, versions [,8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383215
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Nov 2019

CVE-2011-2480  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.

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