What is the severity of CVE-2011-4062?

CVE-2011-4062 is classified as a high severity vulnerability due to its potential to cause denial of service or privilege escalation.

How do I fix CVE-2011-4062?

To mitigate CVE-2011-4062, update the FreeBSD systems to a patched version or apply the recommended security patches.

Who is affected by CVE-2011-4062?

CVE-2011-4062 affects local users of FreeBSD versions 7.3 through 9.0-RC1.

What type of attack does CVE-2011-4062 enable?

CVE-2011-4062 can lead to a denial of service condition or potentially allow local privilege escalation through a crafted bind system call.

Which FreeBSD versions are impacted by CVE-2011-4062?

The impacted FreeBSD versions include 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, and beta versions of 9.0.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2011-4062

high

7.2

CWE

119

18/10/2011

6/8/2024

CVE-2011-4062: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Oct 18 2011(Updated: )

Buffer overflow in the kernel in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0-RC1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly gain privileges via a bind system call with a long pathname for a UNIX socket.

Credit: secteam@freebsd.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=7.4
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=9.0-beta1
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=8.2
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=9.0-beta3
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=7.3
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=8.1
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=9.0-beta2

Remedy

http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:05/unix2.patch

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2011-4062?
CVE-2011-4062 is classified as a high severity vulnerability due to its potential to cause denial of service or privilege escalation.
How do I fix CVE-2011-4062?
To mitigate CVE-2011-4062, update the FreeBSD systems to a patched version or apply the recommended security patches.
Who is affected by CVE-2011-4062?
CVE-2011-4062 affects local users of FreeBSD versions 7.3 through 9.0-RC1.
What type of attack does CVE-2011-4062 enable?
CVE-2011-4062 can lead to a denial of service condition or potentially allow local privilege escalation through a crafted bind system call.
Which FreeBSD versions are impacted by CVE-2011-4062?
The impacted FreeBSD versions include 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, and beta versions of 9.0.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2011-4062?
CVE-2011-4062 is classified as a high severity vulnerability due to its potential to cause denial of service or privilege escalation.
How do I fix CVE-2011-4062?
To mitigate CVE-2011-4062, update the FreeBSD systems to a patched version or apply the recommended security patches.
Who is affected by CVE-2011-4062?
CVE-2011-4062 affects local users of FreeBSD versions 7.3 through 9.0-RC1.
What type of attack does CVE-2011-4062 enable?
CVE-2011-4062 can lead to a denial of service condition or potentially allow local privilege escalation through a crafted bind system call.
Which FreeBSD versions are impacted by CVE-2011-4062?
The impacted FreeBSD versions include 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, and beta versions of 9.0.