CVE-2008-5736

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5736
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-26 18:30:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.0 - All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 - All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p1 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p2 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p3 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p4 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p5 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 p6 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 - All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 - All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 p1 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 p3 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 p4 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 p5 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 p6 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.1 - All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.1 rc1 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:13.protosw.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.freebsd.org Vendor Advisory
FreeBSD netgraph / bluetooth Sockets Privilege Escalation - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker: FreeBSD Netgraph and Bluetooth Protocol Stacks Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
FreeBSD <= 6.4 Netgraph Local Privledge Escalation Exploit - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Third Party Advisory
FreeBSD 6x/7 protosw kernel Local Privledge Escalation Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com VDB Entry
osvdb.org/50936 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
FreeBSD <= 6.4 Netgraph Local Privledge Escalation Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
FreeBSD netgraph and bluetooth Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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