CVE-2018-17155 (GCVE-0-2018-17155)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-28 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:05
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Summary
In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r338983), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338984), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13, due to insufficient initialization of memory copied to userland in the getcontext and swapcontext system calls, small amounts of kernel memory may be disclosed to userland processes. Unprivileged authenticated local users may be able to access small amounts privileged kernel data.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Kernel memory disclosure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeBSD FreeBSD Affected: 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p4
Affected: 11.1 before 11.1-RELEASE-p15
Affected: 10.x before 10.4-RELEASE-p13
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Date Public
2018-09-27 00:00
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