PT-2017-13826
CVE-2017-15037
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Published
2017-10-05
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Updated
2017-10-13
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.1
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
FreeBSD versions prior to 11.1
Description
The issue is related to a race condition in the smb strdupin function, located in sys/netsmb/smb subr.c, which can cause an out-of-bounds read. This occurs because the function may result in t2p->t name strings lacking a final '0' character.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 11.1, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent potential exploitation.
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