| Name | CVE-2018-6917 |
| Description | In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p9, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p8 and 10.3-RELEASE-p28, insufficient validation of user-provided font parameters can result in an integer overflow, leading to the use of arbitrary kernel memory as glyph data. Unprivileged users may be able to access privileged kernel data. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| kfreebsd-10 (PTS) | jessie | 10.1~svn274115-4 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 10.3~svn300087-3 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 10.3~svn300087-5 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kfreebsd-10 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:04.vt.asc
kfreebsd not covered by security support