CVE-2008-5736

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in FreeBSD 6 before 6.4-STABLE, 6.3 before 6.3-RELEASE-p7, 6.4 before 6.4-RELEASE-p1, 7.0 before 7.0-RELEASE-p7, 7.1 before 7.1-RC2, and 7 before 7.1-PRERELEASE allow local users to gain privileges via unknown attack vectors related to function pointers that are "not properly initialized" for (1) netgraph sockets and (2) bluetooth sockets.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 6.0, 6.3, 6.3-p1, 6.3-p2, 6.3-p3, 6.3-p4 (+11)

References

http://osvdb.org/50936
http://secunia.com/advisories/33209
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:13.protosw.asc
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8124
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16951
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32976
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021491
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47570
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7581
http://osvdb.org/50936
http://secunia.com/advisories/33209
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:13.protosw.asc

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