vulnerability

FreeBSD: FreeBSD -- Incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2) (FreeBSD-SA-16:15.sysarch) (CVE-2016-1885)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 11, 2016
Added
Aug 12, 2016
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

Integer signedness error in the amd64_set_ldt function in sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c in FreeBSD 9.3 before p39, 10.1 before p31, and 10.2 before p14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an i386_set_ldt system call, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-base-10_1-release-p31freebsd-upgrade-base-10_2-release-p14freebsd-upgrade-base-9_3-release-p39
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