CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-1887

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An integer signedness error in the sockargs function in FreeBSD allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via a negative buflen argument, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience system crashes and potential unauthorized privilege escalation by local users, posing a serious security threat.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FreeBSD to a version that includes fixes for this vulnerability to minimize the risk of buffer overflow and associated issues.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS