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Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities in FreeBSD

Posted: January 28, 2015 in Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities in FreeBSDMultiple vulnerabilities have been found in the FreeBSD kernel code.

FreeBSD Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities

Danger level: middle
The presence of fixes: Yes
The number of vulnerabilities: 3

CVSSv2 rating: (AV: L / AC: L / Au: N / C: N / I: N / A: C / E: U / RL: OF / RC: C) = Base: 4.9 / Temporal: 3.6
(AV: L / AC: L / Au: N / C: C / I: C / A: C / E: U / RL: OF / RC: C) = Base: 7.2 / Temporal: 5.3
(AV: L / AC: L / Au: N / C: P / I: N / A: N / E: U / RL: OF / RC: C) = Base: 2.1 / Temporal: 1.6
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0998; CVE-2014-8612; CVE-2014-8613 (more…)

The FreeBSD developers have removed potentially dangerous vulnerability

Posted: December 13, 2014 in Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities in FreeBSDThis gap provided an opportunity to introduce malicious code into vulnerable systems using open source software.

The company’s specialists Norse discovered a programming error in the operating system FreeBSD, allowing cause a buffer overflow in the function of stdio. The breach provided opportunity to introduce malicious code into vulnerable systems using open source software.

According to experts, an error occurs when accessing the system calls «write» and «write (2)» during setup flow and if the status of the stream is not checked, can lead to a buffer overflow. (more…)