Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in FreeBSD - CVE-2014-8612

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in FreeBSD - CVE-2014-8612

Published: February 2, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40916
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8612
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: FreeBSD Foundation
Affected software:
FreeBSD

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple array index errors in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) module in FreeBSD 10.1 before p5, 10.0 before p17, 9.3 before p9, and 8.4 before p23 allow local users to (1) gain privileges via the stream id to the setsockopt function, when setting the SCTIP_SS_VALUE option, or (2) read arbitrary kernel memory via the stream id to the getsockopt function, when getting the SCTP_SS_PRIORITY option.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-8612

Install update from vendor's website.

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