CVE-2014-8612

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2015-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple array index errors in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) module in FreeBSD 10.1 before p5, 10.0 before p17, 9.3 before p9, and 8.4 before p23 allow local users to (1) gain privileges via the stream id to the setsockopt function, when setting the SCTIP_SS_VALUE option, or (2) read arbitrary kernel memory via the stream id to the getsockopt function, when getting the SCTP_SS_PRIORITY option.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 8.4, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/107
http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/freebsd-kernel-multiple-vulnerabilities
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72342
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031648
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem.asc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/107
http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/freebsd-kernel-multiple-vulnerabilities
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72342
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031648
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem.asc

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