CVE-2013-5691 Information

Description

The (1) IPv6 and (2) ATM ioctl request handlers in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2-STABLE do not validate SIOCSIFADDR SIOCSIFBRDADDR SIOCSIFDSTADDR and SIOCSIFNETMASK requests which allows local users to perform link-layer actions cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/54861 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2769 http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:12.ifioctl.asc