National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4062

Overview

Buffer overflow in the kernel in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0-RC1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly gain privileges via a bind system call with a long pathname for a UNIX socket.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:05/unix2.patch

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:05/unix2.patch

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026106

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026106

External Source: BID

Name: 49862

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49862

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 75788

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/75788

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 17908

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17908

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2325

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2325

External Source: FREEBSD

Name: FreeBSD-SA-11:05

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46564

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46564

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46202

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46202