CVE-2011-4062

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0-beta1, 9.0-beta2 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/46202
http://secunia.com/advisories/46564
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc
http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:05/unix2.patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2325
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17908
http://www.osvdb.org/75788
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49862
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026106
http://secunia.com/advisories/46202
http://secunia.com/advisories/46564
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc

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