What is CVE-2016-1887?

CVE-2016-1887 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2016-05-25.

How severe is CVE-2016-1887?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2016-1887

Integer signedness error in the sockargs function in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in FreeBSD 10.1 before p34, 10.2 before p17, and 10.3 before p3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and kernel panic) or gain privileges via a negative buflen argument, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

EPSS: 0.011 (62.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1887?: CVE-2016-1887 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2016-05-25.
How severe is CVE-2016-1887?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.