FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Kernel memory disclosure in firewire4 Category: core Module: sysdev Announced: 2006-12-06 Credits: Rodrigo...

CVE-2006-6013

Integer signedness error in the fwioctl FWIOCTL function in the FireWire IEEE-1394 drivers dev/firewire/fwdev.c in various BSD kernels, including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD 5.5, MidnightBSD 0.1-CURRENT before 20061115, NetBSD-current before 20061116, NetBSD-4 before 20061203, and TrustedBSD, allows...

CVE-2006-6013

The CVE-2006-6013 issue affects the FireWire (IEEE-1394) driver fwdev.c in several BSDs, where in the FW_GCROM ioctl a signed integer comparison is used to compute the length of a buffer copied from kernel memory, effectively enabling a local user to read arbitrary kernel memory contents when cro...