CVE-2023-5941

CRITICAL

Freebsd < 12.4 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule

Description

In versions of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE prior to 12.4-RELEASE-p7 and FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE prior to 13.2-RELEASE-p5 the __sflush() stdio function in libc does not correctly update FILE objects' write space members for write-buffered streams when the write(2) system call returns an error.  Depending on the nature of an application that calls libc's stdio functions and the presence of errors returned from the write(2) system call (or an overridden stdio write routine) a heap buffer overflow may occur. Such overflows may lead to data corruption or the execution of arbitrary code at the privilege level of the calling program.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0087
EPSS Percentile 74.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-131 CWE-787
Status published

Affected Products (15)

freebsd/freebsd < 12.4
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd
freebsd/freebsd

Timeline

Published Nov 08, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026