Vulnerability CVE-2016-1887


Published: 2016-05-25

Description:
Integer signedness error in the sockargs function in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in FreeBSD 10.1 before p34, 10.2 before p17, and 10.3 before p3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and kernel panic) or gain privileges via a negative buflen argument, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Freebsd -> Freebsd 

 References:
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asc
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906
http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.html

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