SB2014061013 - Input validation error in FreeBSD
Published: June 10, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014061013
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3880)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The (1) execve and (2) fexecve system calls in the FreeBSD kernel 8.4 before p11, 9.1 before p14, 9.2 before p7, and 10.0 before p4 destroys the virtual memory address space and mappings for a process before all threads have terminated, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (triple-fault and system reboot) via a crafted system call, which triggers an invalid page table pointer dereference.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.