CVE-2011-4062
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the kernel in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0-RC1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly gain privileges via a bind system call with a long pathname for a UNIX socket.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.9% (60th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-4014)
- Published
- October 18, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-4014 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46202(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46564
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:05/unix2.patch(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2325
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17908(Exploit)
- http://www.osvdb.org/75788
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49862
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026106
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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