#VU31214 Buffer overflow in FreeBSD - CVE-2017-1083 

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#VU31214 Buffer overflow in FreeBSD - CVE-2017-1083

Published: September 12, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31214
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
Vulnerable software:
FreeBSD
Software vendor:
FreeBSD Foundation

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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