VULNERABILITY

FreeBSD: VID-5028C1AE-1890-11ED-9B22-002590C1F29C (CVE-2022-23089): FreeBSD -- Out of bound read in elf_note_prpsinfo()

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FreeBSD: VID-5028C1AE-1890-11ED-9B22-002590C1F29C (CVE-2022-23089): FreeBSD -- Out of bound read in elf_note_prpsinfo()

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/09/2022
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
03/14/2025

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-5028C1AE-1890-11ED-9B22-002590C1F29C:

Problem Description:

When dumping core and saving process information, proc_getargv()

might return an sbuf which have a sbuf_len() of 0 or -1, which is not

properly handled.

Impact:

An out-of-bound read can happen when user constructs a specially

crafted ps_string, which in turn can cause the kernel to crash.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-12_3-release-p6
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-13_0-release-p12
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-13_1-release-p1

References

  • CVE-2022-23089

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