Security Advisory

CVE-2013-5666

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-09-23 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 20:22:52
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The sendfile system-call implementation in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 and 9.2-RC2 does not properly pad transmissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory) via a length greater than the length of the file.