FreeBSD up to 7.1 access control

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in FreeBSD up to 7.1 (Operating System). Affected by this vulnerability is the function to. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in FreeBSD 6 before 6.4-STABLE, 6.3 before 6.3-RELEASE-p7, 6.4 before 6.4-RELEASE-p1, 7.0 before 7.0-RELEASE-p7, 7.1 before 7.1-RC2, and 7 before 7.1-PRERELEASE allow local users to gain privileges via unknown attack vectors related to function pointers that are "not properly initialized" for (1) netgraph sockets and (2) bluetooth sockets.

The weakness was disclosed 12/23/2008 by Christer Oberg (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-5736 since 12/26/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 7.0 Beta4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (47570) and Exploit-DB (16951).

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: FreeBSD 7.0 Beta4

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Sourcesinfo

Product: freebsd.org

Advisory: exploit-db.com
Researcher: Christer Oberg
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-5736 (🔍)
X-Force: 47570 - FreeBSD netgraph and bluetooth privilege escalation
SecurityTracker: 1021491
SecurityFocus: 32976 - FreeBSD netgraph and bluetooth Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 33209 - FreeBSD netgraph / bluetooth Sockets Privilege Escalation, Less Critical
OSVDB: 50936 - FreeBSD netgraph / bluetooth Sockets Function Pointers Arbitrary Local Code Execution

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 10/22/2018 07:18
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (63), 10/22/2018 07:18 (8)
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