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CVE-2016-1887
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-25T15:59:03.880 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:42:48.253

Summary

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.

Affected products

freebsd — freebsd

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References

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