Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-0370 - Unspecified vulnerability in Freebsd 5.2

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
freebsd
nessus
NVD
Published: 2004-05-04
Updated: 2024-11-20

Summary

The setsockopt call in the KAME Project IPv6 implementation, as used in FreeBSD 5.2, does not properly handle certain IPv6 socket options, which could allow attackers to read kernel memory and cause a system panic.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
1

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_SETSOCKOPT_521_4.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is running a version of FreeBSD 5.2 older than FreeBSD 5.2.1-p4 There is a programming error in the version of this kernel which may allow a local attacker to read portions of the kernel memory or to cause a system panic by misusing the setsockopt() system call on IPv6 sockets.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id12613
published2004-07-06
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2013 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/12613
titleFreeBSD : SA-04:06.ipv6 : setsockopt()
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

if ( ! defined_func("bn_random") ) exit(0);

include("compat.inc");

if(description)
{
 script_id(12613);
 script_version ("$Revision: 1.9 $");
 script_cvs_date("$Date: 2013/01/25 01:19:07 $");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0370");
 name["english"] = "FreeBSD : SA-04:06.ipv6 : setsockopt()";
 
 script_name(english:name["english"]);
 
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running a version of FreeBSD 5.2 older than FreeBSD 5.2.1-p4

There is a programming error in the version of this kernel which may allow
a local attacker to read portions of the kernel memory or to cause a system
panic by misusing the setsockopt() system call on IPv6 sockets." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2c6acefd-8194-11d8-9645-0020ed76ef5a.html" );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");



 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2004/07/06");
 script_end_attributes();

 
 summary["english"] = "Check for the version of the FreeBSD kernel";
 script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2013 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
 family["english"] = "FreeBSD Local Security Checks";
 script_family(english:family["english"]);
 
 script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
 script_require_keys("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
 exit(0);
}



include("freebsd_package.inc");

port = 0;

package = get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release");
if ( egrep(pattern:"FreeBSD-5\.2", string:package) )
{
 if ( pkg_cmp(pkg:package, reference:"FreeBSD-5.2.1_4") < 0 )
 {
  security_note(port);
  exit(0);
 }
}

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