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FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc.asc)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc.asc

Insight

Insight

FreeBSD's C library (libc) contains code for creating and accessing Berkeley DB 1.85 database files. Such databases are used extensively in FreeBSD for example, the system password files (/etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd) are normally accessed via their database files (/etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db). Some data structures used by the database interface code are not properly initialized when allocated.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release or security branch dated after the correction date https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc.asc