-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Incorrect argument handling in sendmsg(2) Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2016-05-17 Credits: CTurt and the HardenedBSD team Affects: FreeBSD 10.x Corrected: 2016-05-17 22:30:43 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE) 2016-05-17 22:28:27 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p3) 2016-05-17 22:28:20 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p17) 2016-05-17 22:28:11 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p34) CVE Name: CVE-2016-1887 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The sendmsg(2) system call allows to send data to a socket. The data may be accompanied by optional ancillary data. II. Problem Description Incorrect argument handling in the socket code allows malicious local user to overwrite large portion of the kernel memory. III. Impact Malicious local user may crash kernel or execute arbitrary code in the kernel, potentially gaining superuser privileges. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. Reboot is required. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install Reboot is required. 3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:19/sendmsg.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:19/sendmsg.patch.asc # gpg --verify sendmsg.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile your kernel as described in and reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/10/ r300092 releng/10.1/ r300085 releng/10.2/ r300086 releng/10.3/ r300087 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXO64/AAoJEO1n7NZdz2rn6sYQAKd71PBaZ788CqM7w5Zxthym dnM1yDveex9oiBcqDD3jZ/JSQ2faV39BRTAtnyP5VPfwzhmFC/Wkro9vPJfu3qYA nhcWWrL5NgRO0MmB3G5H/cy7y7Umjy7s8K54MPwL53lp9eGCh7ztKDRV3Fhb4Z0b p8iE7yeaG6g+ik0JPMiX9DPJn0EsVz7Q8JqCh3BARonfchgNX220ccKbsZnlslpe 9P8VTTpPdENcUKpvU5kek45kg1pzU6PQ+RGc4zS5245cPlrcIKxL7GDmFQ0UVt0V onwR/xzYa2YfqMlO6lib+xfrJGWk/jeIZdHJnm4XABMgcbS+h/7YyQg52UcM0Yk9 sg8G3AYhKj5Q2L9jtlRMaR8t1Q77yPj3IdZ/O7bYgONY8efUjwsqTD72tH/5Xbqd zzRPQNokm6vSER0NpxxE6ChFsYmPpSKp2LLAb3Q4mABhNQY8rQNYhjoylwTORtSs LBvyD+GBzKN5e5tREyolIfatHXjTJ8OKeHbr5AedwY4c1/NhldHI1s3jOMUjF4jp ZF5HSegqwCCOV3aMnRJx5EQY3s1vKEyWsuOc/0z7mxbU83Wls5uOcgC43FSYJK4X tE70PW6AREFFOS6TMXRowXVaJwSIIQGToeRovLSdQ5kyzPYIdsXa3J4n4cVbC2T0 kPg+frvMQ5qcxtxgVjrU =ahp0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----