CVE-2016-1887
highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileexploit · PoCEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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affected products (7)
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also known as (5)
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sources
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references (10)
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- http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906cnnvd
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asccnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=34742cnnvd
- http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035906enisa_euvd
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.ascenisa_euvd
- http://cturt.github.io/sendmsg.htmlExploitnvd
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