What is CVE-2018-6919?

CVE-2018-6919 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-04-04.

How severe is CVE-2018-6919?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Freebsd

CVE-2018-6919

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p9, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p8 and 10.3-RELEASE-p28, due to insufficient initialization of memory copied to userland, small amounts of kernel memory may be disclosed to userland processes. Unprivileged users may be able to access small amounts privileged kernel data.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.014 (70.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions All supported versions of FreeBSD.

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secteam@freebsd.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secteam@freebsd.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6919?: CVE-2018-6919 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-04-04.
How severe is CVE-2018-6919?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.