Buffer overflow in FreeBSD - CVE-2017-1083
Published: September 12, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31214
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1083
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: FreeBSD Foundation
Affected software:
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, a stack guard-page is available but is disabled by default. This results in the possibility a poorly written process could be cause a stack overflow.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-1083
Install update from vendor's website.