BSD up to 4.2 Symbolic Links information disclosure

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in BSD up to 4.2. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Symbolic Links. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in BSD up to 4.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Symbolic Links. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity.

The weakness was presented 07/19/2012. The public release happened without involvement of the project team. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at osvdb.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (84093†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• BSD

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• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2

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