PT-2017-7980 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Brooks Davis · Published 2016-12-06 · Updated 2017-02-17 · CVE-2016-1888

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions 9.3 through 11.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arguments to login and bypass authentication via vectors involving a sequence of memory allocation failures.

Recommendations For versions 9.3 through 11.0, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1888

FREEBSD-SA-16_36

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1888 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037399 · Note